I have an Excel (version 2007) file which has more than 700 columns and I need to import that data into my SQL Server database. When I import the data, it only imports the first 255 columns as columns in table that is created by SQL Server. I want to know how to import all 700 columns.
You can try saving the excel data file as a text delimited file, then choose "flat file" in DTS. That should solve your problem.
Here is another solution to the problem as well: https://waheedrous.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/ssis-importing-an-excel-file-with-over-255-columns/
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Good day everyone, I just want to know how to import .csv file data into mysql table using vb.net.
example:
1. Using open file dialog to open the .csv file.
2. A textbox to display the .csv filename.
3. And a button to insert .csv data into mysql table.
Note: .csv contains name and address field as well the mysql table.
Thanks in advance if someone can help.
I need to import a .CSV file into a SQL Server table. In the table, one of the columns is of datatype varchar(16), but in the .CSV Excel file, most of the entries in that column are 25 characters or more. I need SQL Server to just cut the string off at 16 characters and import that. How to I do this? I have no idea how to even start to code this
I import this into a table using the AnySQL Maestro import wizard by
right clicking the table
clicking data management
clicking import
selecting .csv as the file type
selecting which columns from the .csv match up with which columns in the sql table
clicking OK.
If the field in the .csv was the right size, there would be no issue importing
Simple solution
Open your .CSV file with Excel.
In Excel keep first 16 characters and remove others (search left function)
Use SQL Server Management Studio to import data from Excel file
I am moving Excel data into SQL Server 2012 using the Import/Export wizard.
The Excel sheet has 377 columns, but when I am importing the file into SQL Server, only 255 columns are appearing in the table. Where are the rest of the columns?
Unfortunately this is a limitation of the ACE driver so not easy to overcome.
An easy solution that I see is to open up the Excel sheet in Excel, then save as CSV. Then use the Import wizard to import the CSV.
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but the Import/Export wizard is actually using SSIS. In one of the last screens, you have the option to save the SSIS package (.dtsx).
To get the workaround with the names ranges to work, you'll first need to import the two ranges in two separate tables and then join them together to fill up the final table.
Maybe this helps as well: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dataaccesstechnologies/archive/2011/01/22/importing-excel-2010-data-into-sql-server.aspx
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
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.