I have an Excel spreadsheet, with one worksheet, with one column, containing key values I want to use to lookup data in a SQL Server view.
I can import the view data just fine using ADO or ODBC, but cannot figure out how to have the "Microsoft Query" tool add both the Excel Worksheet and the SQL View in a single query, so that I can join the data. I had also hoped VLOOKUP might lookup external data, but did not find anything,
I have looked for hours and am stumped. Certainly this can be done somehow where I can use a key in an Excel file to fetch a single related SQL table row back into Excel? I'm a hard core C# developer but seem to regularly struggle with Excel...
I would import the excel data into a staging table in your SQL Server database.
Of course you can use ADO to get the excel data into SQL Server.
Then you can join the view with your staging table.
hope this helps.
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I'm accessing a table in a SQL database through Excel Power Query and I want to do a join with some data that I have in a excel sheet. I don't have write access to the database so I'm not able to just create a table with the Excel data there.
Is there a good workaround that would allow me to join the database table with the data in the Excel sheet?
If you load the data from the SQL database in a query you can merge it with another query in the power query editor. You just have to navigate to the power query editor and find the merge button.
The editor will ask which are the two queries you want to merge and to indicate which columns contain the matching data.
Several types of join are supported.
Is there a way to import a lookup table of account numbers from excel and only pull results from the database that match the account numbers listed in the excel lookup table? My lookup table contains thousands of account numbers so I can't manually type in the results that I want to filter for. I am using Microsoft SQL server studio to pull data from a SQL server database.
Yes, from SSMS in the object explorer you can right click on the database Tasks-->Import Data. From there you can use the UI to import the spreadsheet as a table in your database.
I'm currently working on a small project using sql data tools. I'm getting data from excel sheet and write it back to my database table. from the database table I'm generating a report. Time to time I'm updating my excel sheet. but it won't update in my database table. how do I clear the table and rewrite excel sheet data to database table when run the project every time?
post build script would be how and when I would clear or synchronize the data. Then you have to write the truncate or delete and the insert and/or update sections to move data from your excel document to the sql table. I would suspect that the SQL table is a better place to maintain the data though!!! If you maintain in SQL you can always have a query to see what it is in Excel at any given time and you don't have to worry about synching back to SQL.
I got an Excel file with data which I want to import into a database in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express edition.
I do this with right click on a database -> task -> import data.
After this, my data from Excel is loaded in the database in one table.
But I want to seperate the columns from the Excel file into different tables.
So instead of loading all Excel data into one database and table, I want to load the Excel data into one database, but in different tables.
For example: Save column 1,2,3 from Excel in table A, and save column 4,5,6 from Excel in table B.
Anyone that knows how to do this?
I followed the suggestion of #bendataclear:
"Personally I would just import into a temporary table then write INSERT INTO X SELECT queries to move in the correct columns."
I have a farily simple task of taking an Excel sheet and importing it into a SQL 2005 database table. I need to create an SSIS task for this. The Excel sheet does not have all the columns I need to make the insert directly into the permanent sql table, but I know how I could link out to other tables and get the columns that are missing. So I was wondering how I could import the Excel sheet into a #tempTable (or #VariableTable) and then one in a temp table I could just write my SQL Insert code (using the temptable as well as the other tables that I will link on) in a basic Execute SQL Task. But I am having trouble figuring out how to do this with SSIS. When I drag my excel source and try to link it to a SQL Server Destination the drop down doesn't have an option for temptables.
The SSIS way of doing this would be to use a Merge or Lookup transform. I don't think that you can put things into a temp table like that, but you could have an ExecuteSQL task that creates an actual table that you can then drop at the end of the package. You can then have your package use that.
During the design time you might need to have the table in place to link things up, but it shouldn't need to be there when you actually run the package.
First, you'll need to create the staging table for the excel worksheet. Open SSMS, right click the database, choose tasks, import data. Set the import source as excel. Browse to the file. Set the destination as SQL Server. You can accept the table name or name it as you wish. I suggest naming it something useful. Depending on your understanding of data types and what is in the excel sheet, it may take you a while to get this right. Eventually, you will have a table that will accept the contents of the excel sheet.
Second, create your ssis package by using an excel source and sql serve or oledb destination.
take Execute SQL task in control flow to create the target staging table of excel sheet surce.
in data flowuse excel source and oled db target to staging table create in the first step.
3.In control flow use merge or join statement to your excel targeted staging table with other source table to final target table.
thanks
prav