I need to import data from Excel into a SQL 2000 db.
I need to import 6 fields from the worksheet and increment a string field containing an integer padded to 5 characters with leading zeros. This field is not the primary key and the db does not automatically populate this. Also the DB will allow this field to be entered as NULL if this helps and then change afterwards if this helps.
I can get the data into the table I need using a combination of rookie DTS and insert statments and manually update the string field for the 20 records I have to do today, but next week I need to import around 1000 records.
Should I write a C#/ADO.net app to do this, [bearing in mind I’m a newbie so that’ll take me a couple of days 🙂 ] or is there a way I can increment a string field using DTS directly or some sort of loop in an insert statement?
Thanks in advance
G
EDIT: The table I’m inserting into is constructed as below and I need to update “cedeviceid”, “vanwarehouse”, “username”, “devicesimnumber”, “UserGroup” and “ServiceMgr”. from the Excel sheet. “sendercode” is the string I need to increment
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[mw_gsmprofile](
[cedeviceid] varchar NOT NULL,
[mainwarehouse] varchar NULL,
[vanwarehouse] varchar NULL,
[username] varchar NULL,
[sendercode] varchar NULL,
[devicesimnumber] varchar NULL,
[usersupportgsm] [int] NULL,
[userisonline] [int] NULL,
[onlinedate] varchar NULL,
[lastsentsequenceno] [int] NULL,
[lastsentdate] varchar NULL,
[lastreceivedsequenceno] [int] NULL,
[lastreceiveddate] varchar NULL,
[EnableAutoDownloading] [int] NULL,
[EnableCompressFile] [int] NULL,
[LogonUserName] varchar NULL,
[LogonPassword] varchar NULL,
[LogonDomain] varchar NULL,
[UserGroup] varchar NULL,
[UseStorageCard] [int] NULL,
[SMSMapProfile] varchar NULL,
[SMPPClientFlag] [int] NULL,
[LASTUPDATE] varchar NULL,
[ServiceMgr] varchar NULL,
[VanLocation] varchar NULL,
[OnHireWarehouse] varchar NULL,
[OnHireWhsRepType] [int] NULL,
[HireDepotWarehouse] varchar NULL,
[HireDepotWhsRepType] [int] NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_mw_gsmprofile] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[cedeviceid] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
SAMPLE DATA
cedeviceid,vanwarehouse, username, devicesimnumber, UserGroup, ServiceMgr
3431, 999, INSTALL TEAM 1,,INSTAL, AHOA
3441, 999, INSTALL TEAM 2,,INSTAL, AHOA
3451, 999, INSTALL TEAM 3,,INSTAL, AHOA
3461, 999, INSTALL TEAM 4,,INSTAL, AHOA
3471, 999, INSTALL TEAM 5,,INSTAL, AHOA
3472, 999, INSTALL TEAM 6,,INSTAL, AHOA
I would do this with a small app. You have to get the first item of the table, sorted in reverse order (this will give you the maximum value of the id). After knowing the maximum value, you can increment it very easily with the expressiveness of a programming language.