I have a C# program that I want to import an Excel file into Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.
Can someone give me a link or tutorial where I can fully understand on how to this?
I've been doing this for a long time and I really don't have an idea on how to implement this.
Please help. Thanks.
string excelConnectionString = @"Provider=Microsoft
.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=Book1.xls;Extended
Properties=""Excel 8.0;HDR=YES;""";
// Create Connection to Excel Workbook
We can Import excel to sql server like this
using (OleDbConnection connection =
new OleDbConnection(excelConnectionString)){
OleDbCommand command = new OleDbCommand
("Select ID,Data FROM [Data$]", connection);
connection.Open();
`// Create DbDataReader to Data Worksheet `
using (DbDataReader dr = command.ExecuteReader())
{
// SQL Server Connection String
string sqlConnectionString = "Data Source=.;
Initial Catalog=Test;Integrated Security=True";
// Bulk Copy to SQL Server
using (SqlBulkCopy bulkCopy =
new SqlBulkCopy(sqlConnectionString))
{
bulkCopy.DestinationTableName = "ExcelData";
bulkCopy.WriteToServer(dr);
}
This code may also help you.
private void processExcel(string filename)
{
filename = Server.MapPath("~/Files/WM-0b23-productsBook.xlsx");
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application xlApp;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook xlWorkBook;
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet xlWorkSheet;
var missing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;
xlApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application();
xlWorkBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Open(filename, false, true, missing, missing, missing, true, Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlPlatform.xlWindows, '\t', false, false, 0, false, true, 0);
xlWorkSheet = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet)xlWorkBook.Worksheets.get_Item(1);
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range xlRange = xlWorkSheet.UsedRange;
Array myValues = (Array)xlRange.Cells.Value2;
int vertical = myValues.GetLength(0);
int horizontal = myValues.GetLength(1);
System.Data.DataTable dt = new System.Data.DataTable();
// must start with index = 1
// get header information
for (int i = 1; i <= horizontal; i++)
{
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn(myValues.GetValue(1, i).ToString()));
}
// Get the row information
for (int a = 2; a <= vertical; a++)
{
object[] poop = new object[horizontal];
for (int b = 1; b <= horizontal; b++)
{
poop[b - 1] = myValues.GetValue(a, b);
}
DataRow row = dt.NewRow();
row.ItemArray = poop;
dt.Rows.Add(row);
}
// assign table to default data grid view
GridView1.DataSource = dt;
GridView1.DataBind();
xlWorkBook.Close(true, missing, missing);
xlApp.Quit();
releaseObject(xlWorkSheet);
releaseObject(xlWorkBook);
releaseObject(xlApp);
}
private void releaseObject(object obj)
{
try
{
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(obj);
obj = null;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
obj = null;
MessageBox.Show("Unable to release the Object " + ex.ToString());
}
finally
{
GC.Collect();
}
}
Check out this post :
Bulk Insertion of Data Using C# DataTable and SQL server OpenXML function
Import Data from Excel to SQL Server
I think that most useful answers already have been given.
I am not going to describe the C# way, but rathher give you an easy way of doing it without C#:
Open your MS Access, link your MS SQL database via ODBC, open your table in Access and paste your Excel records there via copy-paste (preformatted to match the table schema.)
This way is very fast and useful when you do some one-time data import.