You can setup a named range in Excel where the first row contains the column
names. The name of the Named Range becomes the tablename. Then define an
ODBC Excel DSN for that spreadsheet. Using HS you can then connect to that
spreadsheet.
--
Terry Dykstra
Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
"Rauf Sarwar" <rs_arwar_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> mmontreaux_at_hotmail.com (Monty) wrote in message
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> > Hi, I need to import information from a MS Excel spreadsheet into an
> > Oracle database table. This isn't a one-off implementation but an
> > ongoing thing. The Excel files have the extension .xls (not .csv which
> > would have been trivial).
> >
> > Somewhere I have heard of something called ExcelORD but Google only
> > shows up 2 hits (in Japanese so I can't make anything out), and the
> > Oracle website none.
> >
> > Any pointers?
> >
> > Thank you
> > Monty
>
>
> Oracle has got nothing to do with it. Handle it on client side. Either
> write a macro to do it, OR save file in .csv and use sqlloader, OR
> open Excel automation object from your client and read data row by
> row. There are plenty of code examples to invoke and do stuff with
> Excel Automation at microsoft.public.excel. If your client is written
> in VB... then it is pretty trivial.
>
> Regards
> /Rauf Sarwar
Received on Tue May 27 2003 - 18:05:46 CDT
