As described previously in the [Prerequisites] (#prerequisites) section, you have to export your Excel data as text before you can use Azure Data Factory to import it. Data Factory can't read Excel ...

Learn how to use SQL to import and export data between different formats and platforms, such as CSV, Excel, and different databases.

Excel spreadsheets are fantastic bits of kit, but databases are not. Rather than making the full jump to replacing Excel with a database system, there is a halfway house you can consider.

The main goal of this script is to import a dataset from excel to sql, efficiently extract some insights and output it back to excel if needed.

Flat File Import into SQL Server Now that you’ve automated the fetching of your flat file via FTP, the next step is to automatically import that file into SQL Server.

How to Create a Table From Query Results in Microsoft SQL. If your business uses relational databases to store data, you may have used a SQL SELECT clause to create new tables from query results.

When you import a spreadsheet into an OpenOffice.org database, you lose any text styling, number formatting, macro scripts or charts that you previously used to enhance the data.