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twl55
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Posted - 08/30/2011 :  10:31:13  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I am successfully exporting the results of a SQL Server 2005 query to Excel in a stored procedure using OPENROWSET.

My number and date fields all arrive in the spreadsheet as character strings (left-justified, don't sort as numbers, etc).

I had hoped just by formatting the cells as numbers in the destination spreadsheet they would arrive as numbers, but they are still strings.

Is there someway to get them to be numbers in the destination spreadsheet?

Thanks

twl55

visakh16
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Posted - 08/30/2011 :  10:47:06  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
whats the datatype of fields in SQL Server?

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twl55
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Posted - 08/30/2011 :  10:56:27  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
decimal(19,9)

and

datetime using CONVERT(dt, 101)

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twl55
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Posted - 08/30/2011 :  12:43:51  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Actually,

decimal(19,9)
int
datetime as CONVERT(dt,101)

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twl55
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Posted - 09/01/2011 :  17:11:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Does anyone know of any other alternatives to OPENROWSET to have SQL Server place query results into an Excel spreadsheet if I cannot figure out how to get numeric fields in SQL Server to be numeric in Excel output? I saw a number of web references to this problem but none seemed to be connected to SQL Server.

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