how can i make to automatically every day run my excel file, reload data from db and append in existing data.
Do I need to use vba script or...???
I have an idea that might work,
Write a script in any backend language of your choice (Java, Python...) that creates an active connection to the database
Run it to periodically query a database table(MySQl,..) and store newly entered data into variables
Continuously append that data into the excel file as you normally would any file.
Most languages have packages to handle excel files, I think it should do it.
Good luck
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I currently have a package that creates an excel spreadsheet with multiple tabs, and it names each column in each tab. Later in the package, I have excel connections that select my data using queries and populates each column in each tab based on the mappings I define. This has worked for a long time, but since a driver update, my OLE DB connections wont let me create the excel spreadsheet anymore. The key here is that the package needs to be able to be called by a scheduling system and be totally hands off and self sufficient. Also, the excel spreadsheet is created brand new with every execution of the package so we can keep an archive of old reports.
I've tried to use the existing excel connections to also build the spreadsheet, but I don't see a way to populate multiple tabs in the same spreadsheet with excel connections.
Is there a better way to do this without having to do a C# script.
Is there a way to export data from a MS Excel file into a SQL Server table automatically? Maybe this is done using a script of some kind.
If it's not possible to be completely automated, perhaps there's a way to do it using minimal user effort. (For example clicking a button or link)
There is a MS Excel spreadsheet where the data keeps having to be manually exported to SQL Server.
I've done this using Excel to Access before, but not too certain on how to do it using SQL Server (MS).
*MS Office 2013 and MS SQL Server 2012.
The other answers are ok. I just want to suggest an additional alternative.
If it is just 1 specific Excel file that is frequently updated, I would consider using VBA. For example, write some VBA code in Excel that uploads changes to the database when the spreadsheet is saved (or the user presses a button).
The problem with using a scheduled job is that Excel is basically a single user application. If someone has the spreadsheet open or is doing something in it when the scheduled job runs or moves the spreadsheet to a different folder, then the job may fail.
This way you also get the updated data in your database in something close to real time instead of waiting on a job to run. This might take more time and effort to set up though than some of the other answers.
You can use SQL Server Agent to run a scheduled job that imports data from an Excel worksheet into a SQL Server table.
The import is relatively straightforward to do using Integration Services, but if you've not used either of these before you might need to do some reading up on it.
You can do the following:
You need to create an SSIS package and then create a job to run the package.
The easiest way to create the SSIS package is with "Import and Export Data" tool of SQL Server. It has a nice step by step wizard.
You set everything it asks you from the source and the destinations. Until you get here, select the "Save SSIS Package":
Then you only have to create the job to run it :)
I inherited some old records for a company I volunteer for. One of the old files is an SQL Dump from their old webpage, and I would like to get the data from one of the tables for their use into Excel.
-- MySQL dump 10.11
The dump drops the table if it exists, creates the table new, and then inserts all of the data.
Is there some easy way I can get this data into Excel on my PC? I don't have SQL Server or anything like that loaded... I assumed there was some easy way to get a CSV or Excel file out of it but I have failed to find this yet without first uploading the dump to some SQL Server.
Unfortunately I don't think that there is any way to export a dump file into an excel or .CSV file. The reason for this is that the dump file is actually a collection of Select statements instead of the actual data itself. SQL servers do this to prevent a whole list of problems that can occur when you try to manipulate raw data manually.
Lucky for you, MySQL offers a free version of their server. You can find it here: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
I think you are best off downloading this and restoring your file as a new database. This has the added benefit of allowing you complete control over the data from that point on. Exporting to excel would be easy at that point however, you may find it a lot more fulfilling to continue using MySQL server.
Hope this helped.
So I have an excel spreadsheet with Product and Notes. I'd like to import this information into SQL and everytime people enter more products and notes into this excel sheet, it will automatically updated to the new one whenever I run the syntax?
I finished creating Product - Notes, which I imported current data into that table.I was planning to use insert into function, and every day insert the new values in the table. But this seems too manual.
Is there a way i can do this? The excel spreadsheet is updated daily.
I'm using SQL Server 2008
I'm sure this is possible. You could have the excel connect to your database and then write some macros to save the data to the table when there are changes or new rows are written.
It would not be easy. There is a lot of complicated logic here and excel was not written to be a front end for a database.
I believe the time spent changing your spreadsheet to work this way would be better spent actually writing a client server application to modify the database using a web application or a local application. Client server front end applications are easy to write these days with lots of examples, tools and templates. For someone with experience a simple data entry / modification form is just a couple of days work for a robust application.
Changing the excel file would be much harder.
You could use SSIS to import the excel data into your database on a scheduled basis.
I'm looking for a simple solution (beginner to SQL) to allow the import of data from my .csv file to my SQL DB.
I have a third party program that is updating my .csv file every 30 seconds and I want to put that updating information into my SQL DB. I tried the importing & exporting wizard but it didn't work due to the .csv file being utilized by the other third party program.
Getting the information into the SQL DB doesn't need to be in real time it could just retrieve all the information when opening a saved sql query file.
Thank you!
OPENROWSET is the simplest one if you get that working in your env for CSV file. i have seen lot of issues with what OS, and what version of MS office installed with 32bit or 64 bit.
but bit more work and you will be all set with creating a small SSIS package to import that CSV in to table. execute that SSIS using SQL JOB at desired interval. later if you needed more complex insert/update you can always modify the package.
This is the case of producer consumer problem where one process is writing data and another one is reading it.
Whatever you do you need to setup some kind of lock on this file that process can check if file is available for reading/writing. If import/export wizard had issues with concurrency then probably other processes will also.
Another option is to always create new file to write into and have reader process to always read from the newest one and delete it after processing.
One more thing you’ll have to take care of is reading from same file multiple times. You need some way to mark the records that have already been read so these are not inserted twice.
All of the above is needed if this needs to be a fully automated and unattended process.
If not you can just manually create a copy of CSV file and then use import/export wizard to import the data.
Here is another resource you can check out for importing CSV into SQL Server
http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2008/02/06/sql-server-import-csv-file-into-sql-server-using-bulk-insert-load-comma-delimited-file-into-sql-server/