Question

I have a table HRTC in SQL Server. I want to import data which is in Excel into this table. But my Excel file does not have all the columns which match the HRTC table. Is there anyway I can do this?

I am thinking something like in the import wizard

Insert into SQLServerTable Select * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', 
'Excel 8.0;Database=D:\testing.xls;HDR=YES', 
'SELECT * FROM [SheetName$]')

 select column1, column2 from HRTC

Answer 1

Try this

Create a temp table

Select * INTO TmpTable FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', 
'Excel 8.0;Database=D:\testing.xls;HDR=YES', 
'SELECT * FROM [SheetName$]')

Then to insert row into hrtc using temptable, any missing columns will have null

INSERT INTO hrtc(column1, column2)
select col1, col2 from TmpTable