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DTS Import data from Excel changing columns and rows

  • February 12, 2007 at 4:20 pm

    #175076

     How do I import data from excel via DTS but importing the columns as rows and rows as the columns?

  • February 12, 2007 at 5:26 pm

    #689331

    Dunno... If faced with such a problem, I'd have the spreadsheet do a transpose and write to a text file for me... then, I'd import the text file using Bulk Insert or BCP.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
    "Change is inevitable... change for the better is not".
    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
    Intro to Tally Tables and Functions

  • February 14, 2007 at 1:11 am

    #689637

    I do this every week, I use an Access project FE where I use ADO code to convert from columns to rows. Try not to refer to your columns directly except for key columns use a numerical index i.e rst(i) where i is a for next variable, that way makes the code flexible and if the number of columns are extended then your time amending the code will be drastically reduced.

     

    Being a programmer I always opt for the easy solution. Ican be done with a query/view for each column but this approach is very inflexible.

  • February 20, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    #690759

    Did somebody try to play with PIVOT and UNPIVOT in SQL Server 2005? You probably can UNPIVOT the original data and then PIVOT them differently.

    Regards,Yelena Varsha

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