I have an SQL query that returns several things, including the date and time that an email was sent, as well as the body of that email. However, when I copy and paste the data to Excel, the body of the email does not stay in one cell, but takes up several cells, many times spanning several rows.
I have not used text-to-columns recently.
Does anyone know how to remedy this?
Thanks!
If you import data from 'Data' -> 'New Query' -> 'From Database' -> 'From Sql Server database' -> Provide your server name, database name and sql query to import data into excel, will get single attribute values to single column in excel
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I have a field in Excel with comments. People enter data with line breaks in a cell (ALT + ENTER).
Is there a way via Excel VBA to import this via ADODB to SQL Server 2016, so I can also retrieve it again as multiline from the database?
An example: in Excel I have a multiline cell with value:
TEST
TEST
TEST
When I retrieve it again via the database it will show TESTTESTTEST, I would like to show the same as in Excel.
I tried both
rs![comment] = cell value
and
t-sql (simplified): insert into comment_table (comment) VALUES cell value
In both cases when I retrieve the data, I only get one string like in the example.
Hope somebody has an idea to solve this.
Already found the solution.
Field has to be of type nvarchar. If I query the table in SQL Server, I only see one string.
TESTESTTEST
If I for example retrieve it in Excel in a pivot and set the field to wrap text, it will apply the line breaks again.
There's an SQL database that I would like to query through excel without having to pull the entire SQL database into excel (5Million + rows). I have established the connection in excel. The values that I will be using to query the SQL Database are variable (typically around 150-200 cells).
End Result: The variable cells in excel are all in column A, I would like to query the Column A SQL values to retrieve the Column B SQL value and pull them back into excel. I know I could download the whole SQL database into excel and do a vlookup but my excel file will undoubtedly crash with all the SQL data.
Does anyone know where I should start? Would this best be resolved through VBA code or the advanced editor directly in excel?
Cheers,
Brandon M
You can include "?" in the query text of your connection. The first time you run the query, Excel will ask you what each of the "?" references. You can then change the values in those cells, and refresh the connection to use those new values.
Your situation is a bit unclear to me.
Do you want to perform "Select * from table where column in (Cell A)"? and then to print into Cell B?
If yes, you can use VBA code to build your SQL query and select the data.
If you don't want to use VBA, you can use some cell concatenation to build the query and can pass the query to SQL.
Using in Excel: Get Data>Other sources>Microsoft Query I had a table getting data from our company ERP system (ODBC).
I have a table in Excel and then I click in Excel: Data>Queries&Connections>Properies>Connection Properties>Definition and in "Command text" i put this simple SQL command:
SELECT F4111.ILLITM, F4111.ILTRQT/1000, F4111.ILTRUM, F4111.ILDGL, F4111.ILGLPT, F4111.ILDCT, F4111.ILUNCS, F4111.ILPAID, F4111.ILDOC, F4111.ILMCU
FROM RBGDC0P2.UREEUPBD.F4111 F4111
WHERE (F4111.ILLITM IN ('XXXXXXX', 'YYYYYYY')) AND (F4111.ILDCT LIKE '%AA%')
XXXXXXX and YYYYYYY are my input codes, which I need some data for them. 'F4111' is a table, ILLITM is my column from ERP database.
I can put ? to open a parameter and connect in to particular cell in Excel, and then I can simply change this cell in excel and refresh a table a have output for different input codes.
My question is: I want to have more parameters, like I put in excel column with 100 input codes and I need output for them by refreshing my table query. I can do it for one or few inputs by putting '?', but how can I do it for more?
I created code in SQL to get specific data.
However, when I try to paste the results into Excel, I get an error message that says
"Microsoft Excel cannot paste the data."
Has anyone experienced this? If so, do you know what the solution is?
I modified the code to only extract data from one department (instead of 4), to reduce the number of rows from just under 1 million to 153,671 rows, but I still get the same error message. The data has 12 columns.
Your help would greatly be appreciated!
If you are using the keyboard shortcut (ctrl+C, ctrl+V), I guess it's previsible that It can't work, because event if the interface can look like excel, the data is different.
you can do the same using automatic tools that will do the query for you and put the result in a csv / excel document.
If you are using MSSQL, you can look on other MS tools such as SSDT, which is very simple to use and have tools to exchange excel data to (or from) SQL databases
another way is to connect your excel sheet to your database. this is explained on MSDN here
You can't copy and paste that many rows at a time due to cache restraints. Your best bet is export the query result to a csv file and open it in excel. Here's how to do it:
Open SQL Server Management Studio
Go to Tools > Options > Query Results > SQL Server > Results To Text
On the far right, there is a drop down box called Output Format
Choose Comma Delimited and click OK
From here it'll show your query results as comma-delimited text.
To save the results of your query to a file: Ctrl + Shift + F
I often receive requests to query a SQL Server database based on data that is sent to me in an Excel spreadsheet.
I am looking for a more efficient way of completing these types of requests than my current setup:
Currently in order to complete the request I do the following:
Copy the Excel column containing the data that will eventually be placed in a WHERE clause.
Paste the data as text only into Microsoft Word.
Do a find for each paragraph marker and replace it with ', '
Then surround the entire clause with parenthesis to enter into an IN clause.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a more efficient way of accomplishing the same task?
Here are a couple of ways:
Query the excel spreadsheet directly:
SELECT *
FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0', 'Excel 12.0;Database=C:\excelfile.xls', [Sheet1$])
Use excel to format the data:
In next empty column = A1 & "," then copy-down, or ="'"&A1&"',"
You could save the excell as a CSV comma delimited file and go from there but if this is a regular thing i would probably set up an SSIS process to do it all for you