Up until now, we have reviewed getting data out of SQL Server and into Excel. We’ve done it via several means: How to Export data to Excel Have Fun Gathering Data to Excel Using More Tools Even More Fun Exporting Data With PowerShell In today’s post, we’ll go over how to export the data you…… Continue reading More Fun Exporting Data with R
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Even More Fun Exporting Data With PowerShell
Earlier, we discussed using PowerShell to import data from a spreadsheet into SQL Server using a method described here. Now, we want to do the exact reverse – export the data from SQL Server to a spreadsheet using PowerShell. As you’ll notice in the linked post, it uses the ImportExcel module. Well, we’re going to…… Continue reading Even More Fun Exporting Data With PowerShell
Have Fun Gathering Data to Excel Using More Tools
In our last blog post – seen here – I showed one way of getting data into an Excel spreadsheet. If you attempted it, you saw how many clicks there. There’s lots of clicking with the wizard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWq4HR69enc Clickety-clickety Now, let’s try doing it a different way. First, let’s open up the one tool that…… Continue reading Have Fun Gathering Data to Excel Using More Tools
How to Export data to Excel
For the last few posts, I’ve been going on about various ways in which you can import data from spreadsheets into SQL Server. But, why should it only work one way? Why can’t we export data as well? Good question, my friend! One of the ways that you can export data is by using our…… Continue reading How to Export data to Excel
More Fun Inserting Data with R
I know what you’re thinking at this point. You’re like “How many more ways can there be to insert data into SQL Server?” The answer is actually as many ways as you can think of. Uh-huh… I tend to stay mostly within SQL Server, but I do branch out to PowerShell and the computer language…… Continue reading More Fun Inserting Data with R
More Fun Inserting Data with PowerShell
Up until now, we’ve talked about various ways to insert data into SQL Server using SSMS. If somehow you missed out on the excitement, you can revisit those posts at: More Fun Inserting Data Using WizardsMore Fun Inserting Data using ValuesQuick and Simple Inserts Those ways work great if you’re inserting one tab of an…… Continue reading More Fun Inserting Data with PowerShell
More Fun Inserting Data Using Wizards
We have now talked about inserting data into SQL Server with functionality from Excel in both Quick and Simple Inserts and More Fun Inserting Data Using Values. Some of you are probably sitting back and saying “That’s just too much work. Give me something that will walk me through it and not have to remember…… Continue reading More Fun Inserting Data Using Wizards
More Fun Inserting Data using Values
Last time, we went over one of my favorite ways to push data into a database table. If you’ve forgotten – or somehow missed it – please sit back and enjoy the fun of Inserting the data. This time, we’ll do it in a slightly different way that can be useful as well. First, we’ll…… Continue reading More Fun Inserting Data using Values
Quick and Simple Inserts
In my last post (found at Pushing Great Data Into SQL Server), we quickly skimmed over the myriads of ways that I use to push data into SQL Server, or for that matter, almost any relational database. This time, I want to go a bit more in-depth into why it works and why it’s so…… Continue reading Quick and Simple Inserts
Pushing Great Data Into SQL Server
One of the items I get asked a lot to do is to push data – usually in an Excel spreadsheet – into SQL Server. Usually, there are less than 50 rows of data. Heck, there are usually less than 5 columns as well. Today – and in a few succeeding blog posts – we’ll…… Continue reading Pushing Great Data Into SQL Server