I’ve added a new column to a database and want to populate it from a spreadsheet. Is there an easy query that will grab the data out based on another column in the spreadsheet that matches the one in the database?
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I’ve added a new column to a database and want to populate it from a spreadsheet. Is there an easy query that will grab the data out based on another column in the spreadsheet that matches the one in the database?
Thanks
I know of two ways:
Edit the spreadsheet, create a formula like
where A1 represents the first cell with data and B1 is the primary key value to the row that will be updated. Then drag the cell down by the lower right corner so the formula is repeated. Copy the text produced by the formula, paste into SQL Mgmt Studio and run.
Or, you can use MSSQL’s import engine which allows you to select a spreadsheet as your datasource. From there you can map your column to the new column.