In SQL Server 2005, you can use SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) to configure an Excel data source as a linked server programmatically. To do this, you can use Microsoft Visual Basic .NET or another programming language. You must supply the arguments that are required in the SQL Server ...
You can use the Find button in GitHub to quickly filter. Select the file to see how it renders. Pay attention to the naming convention. If the name contains multiple x characters in the string, they're usually placeholders indicating the lack of support for a service. For example, applies...
In the Specify Values for Template Parameters dialog box, the Values column contains suggested value for the parameter (Database Name in the example above). Accept the value or replace it with a new value, and then click OK to close the Replace Template Parameters dialog box and modify the ...
Microsoft Excel workbooks are one type of OLE DB data source that you can query through SQL Server in this manner. This article describes the syntax that is necessary to configure an Excel data source as a linked server, as well as the syntax that is necessar...
In this article, I’m going to explain how to insert data from Excel to SQL Server using these 2 different, reliable methods: Method 1: Use SQL Spreadsto insert directly from Excel to SQL tables – the easy option for both business users and tech team members ...
Customers must have enabled this feature on their SQL Server instances to be able to use it. Many customers are not fully aware of this great feature and many have not implemented it in their environment yet, so I still rely on the SQLDiag, SQLNexus and the...
It’s commonly used to handle missing values or combine multiple columns into one fallback output. When Should You Use COALESCE()? This function is useful when combining the values from several columns into one. For example, a table called users contains values of users' work_email and ...
To add a dependency to a SQL Server resource Open the Cluster Administrator in Windows Administrative Tools. Locate the group that contains the applicable SQL Server resource that you would like to make dependent. If the resource for the disk is already in this group, go to step 4. Otherwise...
Using the diagram above, you can see that everything to the left of the number is a character. To get the alpha portion, we use the following expression: LEFT(Section,PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',Section)-1) The expression instructs SQL to get all the characters to the left of the first nu...
an administrator inadvertently formats an HDD that contains active data; software corruption leads to data loss or lack of availability; and a rogue employee steals a physical storage device. SQL Server has features that can help protect against disaster, many of which are part of the platform's...