Learn the steps for importing data from a file to a SQL database using different tools and methods, such as the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard, SSIS, BULK INSERT, or OPENROWSET.

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 SQL Server Agent Job.

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 ...

ExcelToSQLServer is a productivity tool that can automatically import excel into SQL Server.Automation is its main feature, because it can automatically generate table information based on excel to ...

If you have a large data source, such as an Access database, a SQL Server database or even a large text file, you can also retrieve data from it using Excel. Using SQL statements in Excel enables ...