Is there a way to import excel file that has multiple sheets into a database? (each sheet is a separate table) Or Do I have to do that maunaly with csv?
Yes, when using Import Wizard you specify the source as Excel, the destination as your SQL DB and then select the sheet of the Excel workbook to use.
Please be careful with Excel in the data mapping, Excel will 'auto choose' a data type based on the first 10 (?) rows. If you have a column with all numeric at the top, but then some text values later on that data will not load.
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I have an Excel file that has several sheets, I want to import the data from the 2nd sheet but only the first 2 columns. I use SQL Server Management Studio. How can I do this?
Use the import data tool that comes with SQL Server Management Studio, in the wizard you will get to a section where you can map the sheet to a table. You can select the drop down by the sheet and select the second sheet and then map this to a table. Next you will click edit mappings on the bottom right and select only the two columns you would like.
I've got an SSIS package that loads data from a flat file source into a table within a SQL Server Database i then have a SQL task to get specific data and load into an excel destination, i want to add another SQL task to load different data into the same excel workbook but on a different tab is this possible?
Yes it's possible. You can use same excel file to save diffrent data sets in different worksheets. In Excel destination editor for Excel Destination component press [New] button and change name of the table in CREATE TABLE statment to name of the worksheet you want to use. After that select new it as a worksheet name.
Can I execute an Excel package worksheets with different table structure from SSIS to different tables in SSMS dynamically ?
I have an excel file with 3 worksheets. I want to process those worksheets into one database in SSMS but each to their own table. what will be the best practice processing this file? i'm new to SSIS . Thank you in advance
You could, suppose you have target set already in database. there is one properties called openrowset in the advanced properties for excel source. you could specify which sheet to be loaded as well as the columns.
For example, Sheet1$A1:Z, which will load data from sheet1 A column to Z, start from row #1 if you did not check header row as row #1
I got an Excel file with data which I want to import into a database in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express edition.
I do this with right click on a database -> task -> import data.
After this, my data from Excel is loaded in the database in one table.
But I want to seperate the columns from the Excel file into different tables.
So instead of loading all Excel data into one database and table, I want to load the Excel data into one database, but in different tables.
For example: Save column 1,2,3 from Excel in table A, and save column 4,5,6 from Excel in table B.
Anyone that knows how to do this?
I followed the suggestion of #bendataclear:
"Personally I would just import into a temporary table then write INSERT INTO X SELECT queries to move in the correct columns."
I was wondering if it was possible to import Excel documents using SSIS by referencing a column by its position? For example, import columns A,D,M,AA, etc. I ask because I need to load in several Excel documents from a third party. Each document contains the same data type in the corresponding columns, except the column names are different for each document.
Thanks!
Yes but you won't be using the Excel driver and connection manager. Instead, you will use the OLE DB driver and write a SQL Query against the file. For anything but the most basic Excel files, this is my go-to approach for importing data out of Excel.
Various incarnations of my approach
Excel Source as Lookup Transformation Connection
script task in SSIS to import excel spreadsheet
Import a single Excel cell into SSIS