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Default Uploading optional columns from an Excel data source in SSIS - 04-07-2006 , 09:25 AM






Hallo Everyone,

I have an excel datasource that contains 5 mandatory columns and 20 optional
columns. I would like to insert all the data a recieve into a table in an
SQL2005 database. What is the best way to do this?

Thanks...

Nigel...

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Default RE: Uploading optional columns from an Excel data source in SSIS - 04-07-2006 , 03:20 PM






By "optional" do you mean the column values will be blank, or the column
itself would not be present?

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Hallo Everyone,

I have an excel datasource that contains 5 mandatory columns and 20 optional
columns. I would like to insert all the data a recieve into a table in an
SQL2005 database. What is the best way to do this?

Thanks...

Nigel...

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Default RE: Uploading optional columns from an Excel data source in SSIS - 04-10-2006 , 12:49 AM



I mean that the columns may not be present...

"sqlboy2000" wrote:

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By "optional" do you mean the column values will be blank, or the column
itself would not be present?

"Nigel" wrote:

Hallo Everyone,

I have an excel datasource that contains 5 mandatory columns and 20 optional
columns. I would like to insert all the data a recieve into a table in an
SQL2005 database. What is the best way to do this?

Thanks...

Nigel...

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