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lantern497
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 Posted - 2012-03-12 : 09:55:26
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| Hello,I work on a company where I have to type tons of stuff everyday, and it's an exhausting work, I must say. So, I came up with this idea in which I could create a SQL file from a .xls (excel file), containing, for example, the product number and its quantity, that is what I type. I'm a total dummy on SQL, but I started reading some books about it. Is there anyway to implement this, any suggestion, where to start from etc?Thank you. |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2012-03-12 : 09:58:32
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| sorry what should .sql file contain? just productnumber and quantity? what use will it make? or do you want to form a query including them?------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/ |
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lantern497
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Posted - 2012-03-12 : 10:31:47
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| sorry what should .sql file contain? just productnumber and quantity? what use will it make? or do you want to form a query including themThe system would interprete two inputs: productnumber and quantity.. Sorry, I don't know almost nothing about SQL, what is a query?I would like to know if it is possible to do this: make a system interpret a sql file and include it to its main database, and create this SQL file from an excel file, for example. |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2012-03-12 : 10:34:42
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| .sql file means it should have a sql script like create table,insert etc. With just two values alone (productnumber and quantity) its not a script. So thats why i asked is the attempt to generate sone kind of script with them ie may be an insert script to insert these values to a table?------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/ |
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lantern497
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Posted - 2012-03-12 : 10:37:34
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| i guess so, it would be like a script to insert this data on the main database. how would I make this script, what kind of file would it be? |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2012-03-12 : 10:40:37
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| you can generate the script using excel formula itself. but for automating it you might need a macro to be written in excel to generate and save it in some location.Then you can add a sql agent job to execute the script to do the insert------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/ |
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