Good Day,
Today i am facing this error upon importing an excel file to a databe in sql server 2008
i do not know what causes this error, i do not know if it is because the excel file is 48MB in size, or because there is a sheet where in there are 113956 rows? if so can you help me find a work around to this? i really need to import the data inside my excel file to the database. i tried selecting the 2007 version of my excel file in the dropdown box like below but it still outputs the same problem. so any help?
Thank You.
There are a couple of things you can try:
Resave the Excel file as a delimited text file - that way you can get around the MS Office driver.
Try cutting the Excel file in half by saving it in two different files.
Out of curiosity, how many columns does this Excel file have? I believe there is a 255 column limit.
I tried Re saving the file but not in a CSV format, i have found out that the excel file is read only although its properties are not set to read-only, upon resaving the excel file to another file the import now works for me.
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I am new to Pentaho. I am trying to build a transformation that can convert a bunch of .xlsx files to .csv (utf-8).
I tried Get file Names and Text File Output, but it saves a single file as csv and the content of that file is the file properties.
I also tried Microsoft Excel Input and Microsoft Excel Output and that did not work either.
Any help will be appreciated. TIA!
I have prepare a SOLUTION for you. I have made my solution full dynamic. For that reason solution is combination of 6 (transformation & job). You only need to define following 2 things:-
Source folder location
Destination folder location
Others will work dynamically.
Also, I have learn a lot with this solution.
Would you like to generate a separate CSV for each Excel file?
It is better to do it like this:
Using the Get File Names component, read the list of Excel files from the folder.
Then call Execute Transformation, and pass the name of the file.
Then a separate Transformation will be performed for each file, and a separate CSV will be generated in it for each Excel file.
I have got the following Problem.
I have several Excel files containing each the data of a country in one folder.
However I want to pull that all into one Excel report.
As the content of the source files change dayly, I guess the best way to do that is to do a import via an SQL Statement using Union All.
However the problem is that MSQuery only allows me to Access one file at a time. Is there a Workaround for that problem?
Maybe create a data model and use DAX?
This sounds like a job for Power Query, a free add-in from Microsoft for Excel 2010 and Excel 2013, and built into Excel 2016 as "Get and Transform" in the Data ribbon.
You can create individual queries to the different Excel files in the different folder, then create a query that appends all previous queries into one table, which can be loaded to the Excel data model or a worksheet table for further processing.
The queries can be refreshed with a click when the data has changed.
Inside a DATA Flow task, I have OLEDB source, data conversion task and excel destination.
I could see data moving from OLEDB source to EXCEL through DATA CONVERSION task.
I switched on data viewer and I could see data moving.
I replaced the Excel with a Flat File. The flat file is getting loaded with the data.
But if my destination is EXCEL, then I am not able to see data in that excel file. Total count of rows is around 600,000 and my destination excel is 2007(.xlsx)
I am running it in 32bit.
Can anyone please help me out? Please I need it.
Thank you so much in advance.
Excel 2007 row limit is 65,536. I know the source here is Wikipedia, but it is accurate. Source: Wikipedia Excel 2010 is a million something MS Excel Specs. Might be time for an upgrade.
In case you haven't already checked, page/scroll down to the end of the spreadsheet to confirm the data hasn't just been appended below rows that previously held data.
Carl's answer is probably the right fit, but thought I'd share this just in case. I had a similar outcome while developing an SSIS package today.
I tried to transfer data to an Excel sheet that previously had data in the first 1400 rows. I deleted the data in the Excel sheet prior to running the package. The package ran to completion (all green) and said it wrote 1400 rows.
Went back to check the file but there was nothing. Made some tweaks to the package and ran it a few more times with the same result.
Upon closer inspection of the destination Excel sheet, I found that the data actually did get over to the Excel sheet but it didn't start until row 1401...even though there was nothing in rows 1-1400. Did some research but found no solutions that would be worth the time. I ended up just exporting the data to a new file.
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Redistributable components version Registry key
Excel 2016
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Access Connectivity Engine\Engines\Excel
Excel 2010
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Access Connectivity Engine\Engines\Excel
change TypeGuessRows 8 -> 0
I'm looking for alternate data import solutions. Currently my process is as follows:
Open a large xlsx file in excel
Replace all "|" (pipes) with a space or another unique character
Save the file as pipe-delimited CSV
Use the import wizard in SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 to import the CSV file
The process works; however, steps 1-3 take a long time since the files being loaded are extremely large (approx. 1 million records).
Based on some research, I've found a few potential solutions:
a) Bulk Import - This unfortunately does not eliminate steps 1-3 mentioned above since the files need to be converted to a flat (or CSV) format
b) OpenRowSet/OpenDataSource - There are 2 issues with this problem. First, it takes a long time to load (about 2 hours for a million records). Second, when I try to load many files at once (about 20 file each containing 1 million records), I receive an "out-of-memory" error
I haven't tried SSIS; I've heard it has issues with large xlsx files
So this leads to my question. Are there any solutions/alternate options out there that will make importing of large excel files faster?
Really appreciate the help.
I love Excel as a data visualization tool but it's pants as a data transport layer. My preference is to either query it with the JET/ACE driver or use C# for non-tabular data.
I haven't cranked it up to the millions but I'd have to believe the first approach would have to be faster than your current simply based on the fact that you do not have to perform double reads and writes for your data.
Excel Source as Lookup Transformation Connection
script task in SSIS to import excel spreadsheet
Something I have done before (and I bring up because I see your file type is XLSX, not XLS) is open the file though winzip, pull the XML data out, then import it. Starting in 2007, the XLSX file is really a zip file with many folders/files in it. if the excel file is simple (not a lot of macros, charts, formating, etc), you can just pull the data from the XML file that is in the background. I know you can see it through WINZIP, I dont know about other compression apps.
Can You Import an Excel File to a MySQL Database using phpMyAdmin? I am looking to buy this database that has the data of all Colleges and Universities in the US. The file is in Excel format. Can this be imported into phpMyAdmin?
Here is the site where I am going to buy the database from if this is possible: http://www.data-lists.com/universities-colleges-database.html?gclid=CPGXkN6H6aECFeQc5wodBFPRIg
You can download a sample of the database that has 10 entries. I have tried importing this into phpMyAdmin but this is the error I am getting:
There is a chance that you may have
found a bug in the SQL parser. Please
examine your query closely, and check
that the quotes are correct and not
mis-matched. Other possible failure
causes may be that you are uploading a
file with binary outside of a quoted
text area. You can also try your query
on the MySQL command line interface.
The MySQL server error output below,
if there is any, may also help you in
diagnosing the problem. If you still
have problems or if the parser fails
where the command line interface
succeeds, please reduce your SQL query
input to the single query that causes
problems, and submit a bug report with
the data chunk in the CUT section
below:
----BEGIN CUT---- eNrtXAtsHMd5nt177R0FipQoiXqvICkiJd7xnnwJBnWiqFdIiubRjyQO5NVxSV51vGPuIYltVNNt
CgS1azhSIre20sBNXLRp2jSOm9iIW8stYLcA3RZtmodjN3Zgp3FdtLWbokVg+/rPzO7evnkXyYna
zhyHd/PvzP/N/PPP7Mw+vtGpqVNTQ+JITByJi2OjE0NiTIyLqYFkNBnKTMOR9lAoczuI95yYGRLL
H8svSqWyXIrkc2cii/OLYiyWiiXEeDQ6EIa/+IAY6xuK9Q+lEh8W8/LCoLgnNL6UuXVsSExFopH+
And then at the bottom of the error it says:
1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that
corresponds to your MySQL server
version for the right syntax to use
near 'ÐÏࡱá' at line 1
Any help is greatly appreciated.
It looks like you are trying to import a binary file.
Try to export a sheet or a range of the excel file as a CSV file. This must be a reactangle with the same structure on every row.
I've downloaded the sample data and it looks pretty organized. Just save the excel file into csv (File -> save as). Then import it using PHPMyAdmin. I think it will work perfectly fine.
Good luck! :-)