The task is to have SQL Server read an Excel spreadsheet, and import only the new entries into a table. The entity is called Provider.
Consider an Excel spreadsheet like this:
Its target table is like this:
The task is to:
- using 2008 Express toolset
- import into an existing table in SQL Sever 2000
- existing data in the table! Identity with increment is PK. This is used as FK in another table, with references made.
- import only the new rows from the spreadsheet!
- ignore rows who don't exist in spreadsheet
Question: How can I use the SQL 2008 toolset (Import and Export wizard likely) to achieve this goal? I suspect I'll need to "Write a query to specify the data to transfer".
Problem being is that I cannot find the query as the tool would be generating to make fine adjustments.