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Import Excel Data into SQL

Import Excel Data into SQL

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In order to read from an Excel Spreadsheet through SQL you need to install the Office 2010 Database Engine. Afterwards, run statements similar to the following:

EXEC sp_configure 'Show Advanced Options', 1RECONFIGURE with overrideGOEXEC sp_configure 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries', 1RECONFIGURE with overrideGOSELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0','Excel 12.0;Database=C:ImportFileName.xlsx','SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]')
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