Using this SQL statement, I pull locally stored Excel sheet into SQL Server.
SELECT *
FROM OPENROWSET( 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0','Excel 12.0;Database=C:\SampleTestFiles\outputFile.xlsx;HDR=YES', [Sheet1$])
And, I get the complete Excel sheet details with multiple rows in output console.
Now, I want to save the Excel file into a database column of datatype varbinary(max).
Please can anyone let me know how to do that?
Use application code like C# to read the file and then insert the binary data into your varbinary column in the database.
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I have a varbinary(max) column that is storing images in an SQL database.
I am working on a newdb script, where an application creates a new instance of the db and populates a few of the tables. One of those tables I am working on is initializing that image column.
In order to do this, I printed the contents of the column using a select statement and pasted the content into the insert statement of the newdb script. This appeared to work initially, but the image didn't load correctly.
So I compared the DATALENTH() of the original data (5469988) and the new data (21839). It appears the Microsoft SQL Server management Studio - 2014 cut off the data why I copied it from the original db at a certain point. I need to be able to get the entire content of the column. Any ideas?
select cast(convert(varchar(max), VarBinaryMaxColumn, 1) as xml) from Table
Instead of copying/pasting, right-click on the results and do 'Save Results As...', and that should export the full contents. Funny thing is setting the query output to text or file explicitly will still truncate long data values.
If you copy and paste your limited to the query result options. Mostly columns will be cut of after a certain lenght (often 256 chars).
You can select in the top bar "save result as..." which will prompt you an dialog for data export.
You can use the data export wizard too.
I developing package for import data from excel to SQL DB using SSIS.
In one of the excel sheet following value present no format is used it's general .
0.0000316
0.0000088
0.0000022
0.000001
I insert above value into DB following data present in DB. in DB it's float data type.
3.16E-05
8.8E-06
2.2E-06
1E-06
How to insert without E . I need to insert same value in excel sheet. It's possible?
The data in the database is exactly the same data in the Excel. The only difference is the way in which it's shown. I don't know what are you using that data for, but I can assure you that you'll get the same data when fyou do calculations as you would in Excel (Excel also uses flotaing point numbers).
If you need, for some reason, to see the query results in a particular format, use SQL Server FORMAT function.
i recently used a MS excel database and imported it into an database but i want to get all the insert statements that the import made.
Is it possible? All i can see is the executed database in my object explorer but i want all the insert statements of the imported data??
OK let me try explain again :) i have thousands of rows of data in an excel spreadsheet, how do i convert the rows of data to a database. I'm asking like this now because i think i just messed up on the previous try:(
Export the table in sql format
The Format of Output of .sql file is In the form
Create Table Statements
Insert each entry statement So Open that .sql file and copy all INSERT statement
Hope this was your requirement
Trying (and largely succeeding) to export the results of a query from SQL Server to Excel, like so:
insert into OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0',
'Excel 8.0;Database=c:\exported excel files\exported_data.xls;',
'SELECT * FROM [Query$]') SELECT dbo.blabbityblah FROM dbo.the_table
It works! Sort of. It does export the data to the excel file, but it puts it all in there as text, even though some of the columns are datetime and most of them are numbers. None of them are being convert()-ed in the query itself. I've tried preformatting the cells in the actual Excel file before running the query, but it ignores the existing formating and spits it all out as text again.
There's got to be a way to do this, right?
excel dont have data type, its text based and preformat not work becus it replace existing file. if u want datatype try MS Access.
Look into using a schema.ini file to define the datatypes in a csv or txt. when you open either in excel you may achieve what you want
[sample_out.csv]
Format=CSVDelimited
DecimalSymbol=.
Col1=DATE datetime
Col2=FName Text
Another approach you may want to look at depending on your needs is to use the import and export wizard. You can customize a query for the data and specify the data type in the wizard. If you are using a SKU other than Express you can the run it right away or save the SSIS package is generated for further manipulation.
Am trying to import Excel 2003 data into SQL table for SQL Server 2008.
Tried to add a linked server but have met with little success.
Now am trying to check if there's a way to use the BCP utility to do a BULK insert or BULK operation with OPENROWSET, using a format file to get the Excel mapping.
First of all, how can I create a format file for a table, that has differently named columns than the Excel spreadsheet colums?
Next, how to use this format file to import data from say a file at: C:\Folder1\Excel1.xsl
into table Table1 ?
Thank you.
There's some examples here that demonstrate what the data file should look like (csv) and what the format file should look like. Unless you need to do this lots I'd just hand-craft the format file, save the excel data to csv, then try using bcp or OPENROWSET.
The format file specifies the column names for the destination. The data file doesn't have column headings so you don't need to worry about the excel (source) cols being different.
If you need to do more mapping etc, then create an SSIS package. You can use the data import wizard to get you started, then save as SSIS package, then edit to your heart's content.
If it's a one-off I'd use the SQL data import size, from right-click on database in mgmt studio. If you just have a few rows to import from excel I typically open a query to Edit Top 200 rows, edit the query to match the columns I have in excel, then copy and paste the rows from excel into SQL mgmt studio. Doesn't handle errors very well, but quick.