I have a spreadsheet that is currently formatted improperly for a mysql import. The data are organized by column rather than by row. So, the first column has the field names, the second column contains record 1, and so on. Is it possible for mysql to understand this data? If not, any ideas on how to import these data besides redoing the...
I have done this many times and have never seen this. I have an Excel file that I am importing into Access. In this process, if Access encounters some errors, it stores these error incidences in a table called ImportErrors. This table shows the error (eg. "Type Conversion Failure"), the field on which the error was encountered, and the r...
I want to import data from an Excel file - assume Excel 2003 / .xls - to Sql Server 2008. Have tried adding a linked server to the JET OLE DB Access driver, and of course it fails on the 64-bit machine. But when I try to drop the linked server while experimenting, there's another error saying that the linked server already/still exists!...
I have a strange behavior when i try to read an XML worksheet using this code : string CONNEC_STRING = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source={0};Extended Properties=\"Excel 8.0;HDR=No;IMEX=2;\""; string fullFilePath = @"C:\Tmp\TestFile.xls"; using (OleDbConnection objCon = new OleDbConnection(string.Forma...
Hi all, PROBLEM: importing data into ALREADY CREATED mySQL database I've done a lot of search online and know that I can import a CSV file into phpmyadmin in order for the table to be automatically created but I have created an empty table with the exact same fields as the CSV file but would like to just import the data itself. The ...
Hi All, I'm creating a utility to import data from Excel to Oracle database, I have a fixed template for the excel file, Now, when I'm trying to import the data by Jet provider and ADO.Net - Ole connection tools, I found the following problem: there're some columns haven't been imported because there are mixed data types in their colu...
Is it possible to import outlined data from Excel? This is where Excel shows drill-down [+] [-]. Reading from ODBC doesn't give parent/child info; neither does exporting to CSV; export to HTML gives this info via mso-outline-level styles, but 2007 version puts actual content into subfolder and users will be VERY confused trying to sel...
hi, i have a set of excel data containing merge cells that needs to be imported into sql server. However, the results of import show null for cells that are merged. i have tried using IMEX function, testing with values 0,1,2. but it still imports merge cells as null. is there a way to this? thank you SELECT * INTO BenchmarkSurvey FROM...
In my asp.net website i have a functionality where user can import data from excel. I am using SQLBulkCopy to implement it. I have a instead of Insert trigger ( to check for duplicates) on the table in which the data is being imported. Following are 2 issues which i have. Question 1. When excel contains only one record which is duplic...
When i select records from excelsheet the datatable is sorted. I want the records in same sequence as excelsheet, why is the datatable sorted. OleDbCommand objCommand = new OleDbCommand("SELECT distinct * FROM [" + strSheet + "]", objXConn); OleDbDataAdapter objAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(objCommand); objAdapter.Fill(dtEx); ...
I'm looking for a way to read (write would be nice too - although not critical) an Excel file. I mean the 97-2003 format since MS provides OO XML toolkit for the 2007 format and I heard the toolkit is fine. What I have done so far is just used the OleDB (Microsoft Jet) which has many issues and drawbacks that it's even hard to believe...
i am planning to get some Data Entry done for the records of Restaurant info which i later want to upload to MySQL table. Is there some kinda rules i need to follow because i read some place that we have to mention some kinda delimiter like , ; etc. not sure how to do that in Excel. Secondly can i use Google Forms which stores question...
I'm importing an Excel file (about 1000 records only) to a dedicated SQL Server database. As I need to work on the incoming data from Excel (add a GUID per row, some data conversions) I want to do it row by row and don't want to bulk import (I have nothing against transactions, though). I'm confused on how to do it correctly. I can eith...