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Vinnie881
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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 Posted - 2009-04-15 : 15:32:33
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I am returning data from MS Excel usingselect *FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=C:\myfile.xls;HDR=YES','SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]')One of the columns has both numeric and text values. When I run the query all the data in that column is NULL unless it had a numeric values.I tied explicityly converting the field like soselect convert(varchar(50),mycol)FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=C:\myfile.xls;HDR=YES','SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]')But still does not return the text that was in the column.So next I opened the excel doc and formated the column to TEXT, and still the exact same results... Any sugestions?
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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks
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Posted - 2009-04-15 : 15:40:47
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Set your IMEX mode properly.
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Vinnie881
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2009-04-15 : 15:52:24
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select *FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=C:\myfile.xls;HDR=YES;IMEX=1','SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]')Did the trick. Thanks!
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