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rapunzel
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Posted - 11/15/2012 :  08:37:50  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
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.

Thanks in advance.
Edited by - rapunzel on 11/15/2012 08:39:54

sunitabeck
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Posted - 11/15/2012 :  09:23:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
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
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Posted - 11/15/2012 :  10:15:25  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
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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