Re: excel to oracle

"Charles Hooper" <hooperc2000_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1191597379.577870.194270_at_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.

Well, today I found out that for every record I import from my spreadsheet I will need to add a record to an additional table, and I'll have to deal with a couple of sequences. What I'm likely going to do is import the spreadsheet into Access and use some VBA to read the records, create the needed insert statements, and save them to a text file. I'll keep your solution in mind for when I have a more straightforward import to do. Thanks.

Tim B Received on Fri Oct 05 2007 - 20:16:11 CDT