Re: excel to oracle

From: Charles Hooper <hooperc2000_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:16:19 -0700
Message-ID: <1191597379.577870.194270@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>

On Oct 5, 10:37 am, "Tim B" <nos..._at_someisp.ca> wrote:
> I have some data in an Excel spreadsheet - about 100 -200 records - that I
> need to import into Oracle, likely with some transformation required. I can
> convert it to csv or xml via MS Access and then set it up as an external
> table and proceed from there. What other ways could you suggest that might
> be feasible for this task? Is there another way to do it with xml as the
> source?

If you have Access, the easiest way to do this is to: 1. Connect to the Excel spreadsheet as an external table source in Excel
2. Create a query in Access to retrieve all rows from the Excel spreadsheet and rename the columns so that they match the Oracle table.
3. Create an external table source connection to the Oracle table (through an ODBC connection).
4. Modify the query definition so that it is an append query, and select the connection to the Oracle table. 5. Run the query.

Much easier than it is to explain.

Charles Hooper
IT Manager/Oracle DBA
K&M Machine-Fabricating, Inc. Received on Fri Oct 05 2007 - 10:16:19 CDT