Exporting Data From Excel Into Sql Server - Newbie
Aug 31, 2007
Using SQL Server 2005 Standard
The basic question
What is the best way to export data from an excel spreadsheet into a sql server table?
My Application
Getting data indicating hours worked from employee timesheets into a centralised DB, then running analysis reports on it.
The columns and datatypes in the excel sheet are as follows:
Week (int) | EmployeeID (int) | JobNum (int) | ActivityNum (int) | Hours (int)
There will be a new excel file each week that, once the employee has filled out the data, would need to be saved and exported to the sql table. The columns in the sql table are exactly the same as the excel table with the addition of a RecordID primary key column.
Can I create a macro button that they can push when they have completed their timesheet OR would it be better to tell the employees to save copies of their timesheets in a certain folder on the company network and then run a batch on all the files in the folder at the end of the day?
Or is there another more efficient solution? Would I use SSIS for this or something else?
I've never used SSIS before and am a newbie at SQL Server too.
Error = [Microsoft][SQL Native Client]An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.
This is on a single machine running Widows XP Home.
I have managed to add the DTS wizard as a tool and saved the routine. However, I do not know how to schedule my PC to automatically run this DTS procedure. I have tried to use scheduled tasks, but it does not seem to want to start.
I thought this should be easy... but, so far it has not been. I want to export data from SQL Server using a query to an Excel spreadsheet. I'm using SQL Server ODBC for the source connection and a Connection To Excel as my destination source. The spreadsheet exists and has the first row with column names. My mappings and query work fine. I don't have any warnings before trying to execute. BUT it will not insert the data into the spreadsheet. Here are the errors I'm getting: [Destination - TEST$ [28]] Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E21. [Destination - TEST$ [28]] Error: Cannot create an OLE DB accessor. Verify that the column metadata is valid. [DTS.Pipeline] Error: component "Destination - TEST$" (28) failed the pre-execute phase and returned error code 0xC0202025.
TEST$ is the sheet that I am trying to add the data to and I'm using Excel 2003.
My query is simple: SELECT OrderDate AS Date, VendorName AS Vendor, Item AS Product, TotalCost AS Amount FROM osv_Ordercaldwecs319 All fields have been converted to varchar although I started with not trying to convert them so I have tried both ways.
What is causing the errors? Where can I look to find the problem? I'm guessing it's a data conversion problem but I made everything varchar and no formating on the spreadsheet (although I've tried that as well)
I need to export data, from within a MSSql stored procedure to excel. Right now we use DTS, but its cumbersome and the users always screw it up.
I would usually just send the tabel to a .csv fiel and pick it up in excel, but I have a field that has preceding zeros and excel truncates them and uses a general fromat.
Hi, I am new to ASP.net. I have worked on a VB.net code to export data from sql server to excel. The code is simple and works well. Now I am placing this code in a button click event in a asp.net web project. The code has bugs now and I am not sure how to solve those. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. CODE: Protected Sub btnDumpMaterial_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) 'ErrorMsg.Show("Not Implemented Yet1") 'lblName.Text = txtLast.Text & ", " & txtFirst.Text Dim DBConnection As String = "Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;uid=sa;password=test ;database=Northwind;DataSource={localhost}" Dim sql As String = "SELECT CustomerId, CompanyName, ContactName From Customers" Dim Conn As New ADODB.Connection Dim rs As New ADODB.Recordset Dim oExcel As Excel.Application Dim oBook As Excel.Workbook Dim oSheet As Excel.Worksheet oExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application") oExcel.Visible = True oBook = oExcel.Workbooks.Add oSheet = oBook.ActiveSheet Conn.Open(DBConnection, "sa", "test", -1) rs.Open(sql, DBConnection, ADODB.CursorTypeEnum.adOpenStatic, ADODB.LockTypeEnum.adLockBatchOptimistic, 1) oSheet.Range("A1").CopyFromRecordset(rs) rs.Close() Conn.Close() End Sub ERROR MESSAGE: Type 'ADODB.Connection' is not defined Type 'ADODB.Recordset' is not defined Type 'Excel.Application' is not defined Type 'Excel.Worksheet' is not defined Name 'ADODB' not declared
I am trying to export data to excel and it is giving an error. Here is the query and error:
INSERT INTO OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', 'Excel 8.0;Database=C:SQL ServerEmp_Personal_Data.xls;', 'SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]') SELECT * FROM Emp_Info
error is: Cannot get the column information from OLE DB provider "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0" for linked server "(null)"
Can anybody please help me what is this error about & how to fix this.
Hi all,I've seen this noted in many posts, but nothing I've checked out givesme any clue on how to do this.Basically as my topic says, I have a DTS and I simply need to exportsome data from a table in MS SQL 2000 to an Excel spreadsheet. I alsoneed to automate this process so it can run nightly and each new day anew spreadsheet will be on a network share for us to pick-up.Can someone point me to the right direction? This needs to be donetotally through the DTS script, so no ImportExport wizard or anythingmanual.Thanks --Sam
Hi there. i have the following excel spreadsheet that needs to be moved into a database:
ADDRESS STREET SURNAME GIVEN PHONE CITY POSTAL NOTES TERR
40 Goodless Crt You M (416) 123-1234 SC M1B 1A1
SC-123-12
59 Bellevue Ave Doe Jon (416) 123-1234 SC M1B 1A3
SC-123-13
Most of these fields are going to be created as reference tables... and the main contact list table will only include a fk to the actual value. eg) the contact table for the above will look like:
ADDRESS STREET SURNAME GIVEN PHONE CITY POSTAL NOTES TERR
40 1 You M (416) 123-1234 1 M1B 1A1
5
59 2 Doe Jon (416) 123-1234 1 M1B 1A3
6
My question is, what is the best way to move all this data into SQL Server Express? I've been playing around with the LinkedServers section in sql and have managed to create a connection to my excel workbook. I am able to select all worksheets as tables... and i've also been able to select all records from the main contacts sheet. not knowing any better, my initial thoughts are to create separate sql statements for each reference table. eg) select street from excellink...contact$ and then combine it somehow with an insert statement into the streets table in my database. Is this the right approach? if it is, can you help with the syntax of the sql statement? Please and thanks.
I am new to SQL and can do queries OK on SQLTalk. I need to know if there is a script to retrieve data and then export to an Excel spreadsheet for internal company use. Is there such a beast and is this the right place to look???
Hi all. I have a few Excel sheets with a large amount of data, and i wish to export them into the SQL database. I have already made some tables, but currently all i can do is copy and paste into one individual cell, and thats not the best way of doing it. Any ideas? thanks.
I have started just using SSIS. I needed to transfer result set from SQL statements like SELECT * FROM Employee to excel spreadsheet. One way of getting this is using import and export wizard from management studio.
As my sql statement is complex joining many tables. I am wondering wheteher there are other best ways to deal such type of transformations.
I am sure this is very simple question but yours feedback will be much appreciated.
Hi everybody, i'm new to SSIS, so it's possible that mine is a very stupid question
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I currently have a export that takes data from my SQL Server 2005 DB and exports it into Excel. This process works correctly. My excel template has the first row headers and the data is dumped in the row after the header. I would like to know if it is possible for me to add borders around my data without doing it within the template? I don't know how much data is going to be exported so I can't put borders within the template. I put borders around the headers to see if it will copy the formatting down to the data and it didn't. Thank You for any help.
i have designed a rdl form which contains 3 tables .. i gave page break for each table. when exporting the file to excel it generates 3 sheets .. three sheets name comes like sheet 1, sheet2 ,sheet3.. i dont want it to be like these.. instead of that i have to give my own name while generating reports from rdl form like this (s1,s2,s3)...
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If it is considered better to have the SP do it, why and what is the best way? ROWSET functions?
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But when I give administrative privilages to the service account under which the SSIS package is running, it export even more than 24000.
On prod server giving administrative privilages to service account is not a good option. I don't know what are the minimum permissions it needs while exporting more data into excel 2007 file.
I thought this is the problem in office 2007 beta, but same behaviour is with RTM also.
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Below is the expression code from one of the fields in my Page Header :
="From: " & ReportItems!dtBegDate.Value
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I am not able to find out how this can be achieved in Reporting Services. Please help me in this.
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Any idea on how to tell Excel that those columns are numbers?
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Below is detailed error message:
- Executing (Error)
Messages
Error 0xc02020c5: Data Flow Task 1: Data conversion failed while converting column "extended_info" (59) to column "extended_info" (143). The conversion returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.".
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc020902a: Data Flow Task 1: The "Data Conversion 0 - 0.Outputs[Data Conversion Output].Columns[extended_info]" failed because truncation occurred, and the truncation row disposition on "Data Conversion 0 - 0.Outputs[Data Conversion Output].Columns[extended_info]" specifies failure on truncation. A truncation error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.
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