DTS Import data from Excel changing columns and rows

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DTS Import data from Excel changing columns and rows

Pearl Ash

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February 12, 2007 at 4:20 pm

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

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 1

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
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Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

DKeeling Old Hand Points: 385 More actions · Answer 2

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.

Yelena Varshal SSC-Dedicated Points: 34286 More actions · Answer 3

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