I'm trying to remove manual data entry and duplicate from a process. I have a report that is exported to excel and I'm trying to merge it with a prebuilt data set. I've tried the basic vlookup and if formulas. Where I am running into trouble is Column D lists an activity which may or may not be leave. When it is leave, I need the value returned to Column N and the Row corresponding to date and ID for that employee. Is this something that is even possible?
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I am trying to build a query that populates data in a column in a similar way to how an index, match or vlookup works.
My workbook has 2 sheets:
Contains open order data pulled from SQL (SQL_Data)
Contains saved comments that were manually entered on the SQL sheet (Preserved_Comments)
I have two queries set up:
Saves the order number and the manually input comments from the SQL_Data sheet, and puts them in a table on the Preserved_Comments Sheet
Refreshes the SQL data table
I have been trying to add a 3rd query that adds the comment column back into the SQL_Data sheet, but I can't figure out how to do a join / index, match / Vlookup that looks at the order numbers and populates the saved comment.
My goal for this is to create an order report where when the SQL data is refreshed, the manually added comments are saved and follow the order number.
Any guidance would be appreciated!
You can merge both Queries into a new one. Use a key column, It would be the lookup array in INDEX/MATCH. This should allow you to join the column.
I am working on Excel file to load the data into sql table using SSIS VS2013.
How do I extract the column names into a temptable?
In the image attached,there is the "2017 Marketing Sales - Actual" column in the first row, I want to extract the YYYY from the column name and pass that value to a variable and update the table field with YYYY info.
Can you anyone help me how to do this?
In your Excel Connection Manager, uncheck the "First row has column names" check box. This should allow you to access that first row. You'll need to setup a Data Flow Task using this Excel Connection Manager, followed by a derived column to extract the left 4 characters from that 1st row. Unless you somehow limit the rest of the Excel data source, you'll probably also get a lot of extraneous rows importing into your destination. Might need to do some clean up to get it down to just that year.
I am currently entering data into a SQL Server database using SSIS. The plan is for it to do this each week but the day that it happens may differ depending on when the data will be pushed through.
I use SSIS to grab data from an Excel worksheet and enter each row into the database (about 150 rows per week). The only common denominator is the date between all the rows. I want to add a date to each of the rows on the day that it gets pushed through. Because the push date may differ I can't use the current date I want to use a week from the previous date entered for that row.
But because there are about 150 rows I don't know how to achieve this. It would be nice if I could set this up in SQL Server where every time a new set of rows are entered it adds 7 days from the previous set of rows. But I would also be happy to do this in SSIS.
Does anyone have any clue how to achieve this? Alternatively, I don't mind doing this in C# either.
Here's one way to do what you want:
Create a column for tracking the data entry date in your target table.
Add an Execute SQL Task before the Data Flow Task. This task will retrieve the latest data entry date + 7 days. The query should be something like:
select dateadd(day,7,max(trackdate)) from targettable
Assign the SQL result to a package variable.
Add a Derived Column Transformation between your Source and Destination components in the Data Flow Task. Create a dummy column to hold the tracking date and assign the variable to it.
When you map the Excel to table in a Data Flow task, map the dummy column created earlier to the tracking date column. Now when you write the data to DB, your tracking column will have the desired date.
Derived Column Transformation
I have a table with a bunch of different fields. One is named period.
The period is not part of the raw data but I run a query when I import new data to the database that gives each record a period.
Now I need a delete query that will delete all the records that have the same period as what is selected in a combobox.
The values in the combobox come from a calendar table that contain all the possible values that could be in that period column at any time.
This is the basic query i thought would solve this issue but it tells me it is going to delete 0 rows every time I run it:
DELETE *
FROM PlanTemp
WHERE PlanTemp.period = Forms![Plan Form]!Combo163;
If you don't need the key field, just remove it.
Look at the "PROPERTIES" section and look at the column names.
Ether remove it there, or from your QUERY source.
You can also look at the Data section of the properties, and change your BOUND column, to Column 2... or whatever holds the data you want to use.
I have a large s/sheet. Values in column A correspond to values in column B, C & D.
I need to combine some rows which have same value in column A and automatically calculates total of value in column B in all corresponding rows.
Then i need to delete all unnecessary rows
Any ideas how i can do this with some code?
I think that you can use Power Query or VBA. Probably you will be able to achieve this with formulas, but it will be not flexible. With Power QUery you can combine data from multiple sources, clean and transform and even load directly into PowerPivot model. If you will have some detailed information please let me know. If you can upload the sample workbook with your data i will be able to provide you some more information.