Importing excel info to sql database

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Hi,

I have an application and want to move information from a excel file to sql but the problem is that the structure/columns are not identical, Is there a way to specify to which column to go to when reading it?

Posted 7-Oct-12 23:57pm

andilemtshali

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skydger 8-Oct-12 6:04am

How does your application load data to SQL server from Excel? There are different ways to load data from Excel or CSV data into SQL server, which one is used in your application?

andilemtshali 8-Oct-12 6:23am

i used a file uploader to get the file and used SqlBulkCopy to copy to server

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VIPR@T · Answer 1 · 2012-10-08T00:33:00

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Hello,

Please see the below link. It might be help you. Here you can map the column as well. So may be you can find the solution.

http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/sql/Importing-MS-Excel-data-to-SQL-Server-2008.aspx[^]

Thanks,
Viprat

Posted 8-Oct-12 0:33am

VIPR@T