title: Import data from Excel to SQL Server or Azure SQL Database. description: This article describes methods to import data from Excel to SQL Server or Azure SQL Database. Some use a single step, ...

Ensure your SQL Server table structure matches your Excel file columns The script assumes the first row of your Excel file contains column headers For large files, use batch mode (-b flag) for better ...

We have an ancient AS/400 730 system that still houses some old budget/financial data. We'd like to decommission this box, and migrate the data to a SQL server. The data won't be modified or ...

Now that the file format is compatible with Excel, double-click the CSV file to open it in the app. 2. Use the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) First, we will restore the BAK file in SSMS; for that ...

Flat File Import into SQL Server Now that you’ve automated the fetching of your flat file via FTP, the next step is to automatically import that file into SQL Server. To do this, we’ll use an ...

As of the November update of Power Query, it’s now possible to write your own SQL query when you’re moving data out of SQL Server into Excel using Power Query. So I got thinking… if you can write your ...

A few weeks ago, when I was playing around with the new WebService() function in Excel 2013, I was disappointed to learn that it didn’t work with services that require authentication – a pretty big ...