I have a report in Excel that has to be imported to SQL Server using SSIS. The file has merged cells which don't seem to import properly. Instead they show up as NULL. Does anyone know how to import an Excel file with merged cells? Thanks.
Are you mapping the correct cell from the Excel spreadsheet? I've found it should be the first (leftmost) cell that needs to be mapped - if you use the other cell(s) it will come across as null. Can you add a Data Viewer to the Data Flow Path to check what is coming in?
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I have an Excel workbook that contains a series of sheets for import into a database. For most of the sheets I'm using a query to get at the data along the lines of:
SELECT [F1], [F2] FROM [Sheet Name$A2:B10000]
In my development I had a workbook with some test data for each sheet. Now someone else is using the package to import a copy of the workbook, but one of the sheets is blank because they don't want any data loaded for that particular table. Unfortunately, when the package tries to run that portion of the import it errors out with a VS_NEEDSNEWMETADATA error.
This can't be a unique problem, but I haven't been able to find any solutions online. Any suggestions on how to get around it?
In a similar case, I would use a Script Task to check if the Excel sheet contains data, if so, the Data Flow Task is executed (using precedence constraints).
Also, make sure to set the Data Flow Task Delay Validation property to True.
Useful links:
Check if Excel file is empty in C#
How to check if Excel-workbook is empty?
Working with Precedence Constraints in SQL Server Integration Services
Is there a way to import excel file that has multiple sheets into a database? (each sheet is a separate table) Or Do I have to do that maunaly with csv?
Yes, when using Import Wizard you specify the source as Excel, the destination as your SQL DB and then select the sheet of the Excel workbook to use.
Please be careful with Excel in the data mapping, Excel will 'auto choose' a data type based on the first 10 (?) rows. If you have a column with all numeric at the top, but then some text values later on that data will not load.
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.
I wish to import data from an Excel File into SQL Server 2012. The Excel file has one column which contains an image in each row.
So when I use the SQL Server Import & Export Wizard, it imports everything fine except the pictures.
Thank you.
It's not possible to import images from an Excel file into SQL Server using the Import & Export Wizard.
This is partly due to the fact that images are actually not located inside the individual spreadsheet cells. In Excel, images are stored as free objects (granted, you can anchor an image to a cell, but this is pure layout - not data).
To be able to do what you want, you'd probably have to create some custom VBA code, to loop through each image in your spreadsheet, serialize the image into binary format and then write it to your SQL database table, along with the name of the image object. You will probably have to do this on an image-by-image basis, inserting one record at a time, so hopefully, your Excel spreadsheet does not contain too many images.
Binding each image record to the cell record will be a problem on its own, but hopefully, the images in your Excel file have been named in a way, that enables you to match them with their corresponding data record.
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