script task in SSIS to import excel spreadsheet

Question

I have reviewed the questions that may have had my answer and unfortunately they don\'t seem to apply. Here is my situation. I have to import worksheets from my client. I

Answer 1

I put together a post describing how I've used a Script task to parse Excel. It's allowe me to import decidedly non-tabular data into a data flow.

The core concept is that you will use a the JET or ACE provider and simply query the data out of an Excel Worksheet/named range. Once you have that, you have a dataset you can walk through row-by-row and perform whatever logic you need. In your case, you can skip row 1 for the header and then only import columns A, C, D and AA.

That logic would go in the ExcelParser class. So, the Foreach loop on line 71 would probably be distilled down to something like (code approximate)

// This gets the value of column A
current = dr[0].ToString();
// this assigns the value of current into our output row at column 0
newRow[0] = current;

// This gets the value of column C
current = dr[2].ToString();
// this assigns the value of current into our output row at column 1
newRow[1] = current;

// This gets the value of column D
current = dr[3].ToString();
// this assigns the value of current into our output row at column 2
newRow[2] = current;

// This gets the value of column AA
current = dr[26].ToString();
// this assigns the value of current into our output row at column 3
newRow[3] = current;

You obviously might need to do type conversions and such here but that's core of the parsing logic.