Import Excel to SQL Server 2008

Question

I need to create a process to import a multi tabbed excel spreadsheet into SQL Server 2008R2. Each tab will be a different table in the database. This will need to be done w

Answer 1

There is a nice article by microsoft - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321686 - that outlines the processes involved.

The process is simply

SELECT * INTO XLImport3 FROM OPENDATASOURCE('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0',
   'Data Source=C:\test\xltest.xls;Extended Properties=Excel 8.0')...[Customers$]

Where XLImport3 is the table you want to import into and the datasource is the excel sheet you want to import from.