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rapunzel
Starting Member
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 Posted - 2012-11-15 : 08:37:50
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hi,
Please help me with a sql code to bulk insert data from excel in a table, without creating a table with predefined column names.
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sunitabeck
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2012-11-15 : 09:23:09
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You can't use BULK INSERT, but you can use OPENROWSET. See this page for documentation and examples: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa276850(v=sql.80).aspx
Adapting from one of the examples on that page, your code would be something like this
SELECT a.* INTO #tmp
FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0',
'c:\MSOffice\Access\Samples\northwind.mdb';'admin';'mypwd', Orders) as a
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2012-11-15 : 10:15:25
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if its excel it should be
SELECT * INTO #tmp
FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0',
'Excel 8.0;Database=your full excel sheet path here', [SheetName$])
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bulk insert