Question

My program is written in VB.NET and I have an excel sheet with only one column and type of column is Text. Now I want to add all the rows of excel sheet into MS Access table.

My Access table has 5 columns, and I have to provide some static data for rest of fields. I can’t let them empty as my table structure won’t allow me to let them empty. they are mandatory.

My algorithm works this way

• Read excel sheet data into a DataTable
• Loop to the end of all rows of DataTable

• Append text of each cell and some of my static information to make a query string

  INSERT into TableName(c1,c2,c3) 
  values 
  (v1,v2,v3),
  (v1,v2,v3),
  (v1,v2,v3),
  (v1,v2,v3)
  ...
  ...
  (n1,n2,n3);
  

• Execute this query

But I got error in this query, Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can run SQL against a connection to interact directly with Access and Excel. For example, working with the connection:

Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=Z:\Test.xlsm;
Extended Properties="Excel 12.0 xml;HDR=Yes;";

Or Jet

Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=Z:\Test.xls;
Extended Properties="Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;";

You can run the following SQL:

INSERT INTO [;DATABASE=Z:\Docs\Test.accdb].Table1 (ID,Atext) 
SELECT ID, AText FROM [Sheet7$] 

Or Jet

INSERT INTO [;DATABASE=Z:\Docs\Test.mdb].Table1 (ID,Atext) 
SELECT ID, AText FROM [Sheet7$]