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learning_grsql
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Posted - 08/24/2012 :  07:26:35  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi,

I would like to know is it possible to link excel file sheet as a sql server table and update values from excel.

User should be able to update value from excel into the sql server table.

visakh16
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Posted - 08/24/2012 :  10:01:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
yep.you can .My preffered method is OPENROWSET though there are several other ways too
see below for options


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321686



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learning_grsql
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Posted - 08/25/2012 :  03:37:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks visakh16...but in all these cases it seems we need to manually import data into sql server table. I was looking for something if user updates value in excel file, it should automatically reflect in sql server table as in the case of access-excel linked tables...
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visakh16
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Posted - 08/25/2012 :  13:13:58  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
for that you need to have a macro inside excel which looks for action (may be when user clicks a button) and then update a table using OPENROWSET

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learning_grsql
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Posted - 10/13/2012 :  08:03:06  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks @visakh16

Now I want to import .xlsx(excel 2007) in sql server 2005 using openrowset method? As far as I learned from the above link, it seems in sql server 2005, we can only import .xls.

Do you think it's possible?
Edited by - learning_grsql on 10/13/2012 08:04:32
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