Reading Excel data using SQL

[ptrex]

Reading Excel data using SQL

Someone was asking what is the fastest way to determine the number of lines in an Excel sheet.

Fast reading the number of records in Excel

Well the best way for speed is SQL of course, opposed to the EXCEL COM fucntions.

Here's is how to get stared :

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Const $adOpenStatic = 3
Const $adLockOptimistic = 3
Const $adCmdText = 0x0001
Global $s_Filename=FileGetShortName("C:TmpTest.xls")
Global $s_Tablename = "[Sheet1$]"

; Initialize COM error handler
$oMyError = ObjEvent("AutoIt.Error","MyErrFunc")

; Source XLS data
$objConnection = ObjCreate("ADODB.Connection")
$objRecordSet = ObjCreate("ADODB.Recordset")
$objConnection.Open ("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _
                "Data Source="&$s_Filename&";" & _
                "Extended Properties=""Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;"";")
$objRecordSet.Open ("Select Count(*) FROM"& $s_Tablename & "Order by 1 Asc" , $objConnection, $adOpenStatic, $adLockOptimistic, $adCmdText)
    

Do
    ConsoleWrite ($objRecordSet.Fields(0).value+1 &@CR) ; + 1 because it is 0 based
    $objRecordSet.MoveNext()
Until $objRecordSet.EOF()

$objConnection.Close
$objConnection = ""
$objRecordSet = ""

    
Func MyErrFunc()
$HexNumber=hex($oMyError.number,8)
Msgbox(0,"COM Test","We intercepted a COM Error !" & @CRLF & @CRLF & _
             "err.description is: " & @TAB & $oMyError.description & @CRLF & _
             "err.windescription:" & @TAB & $oMyError.windescription & @CRLF & _
             "err.number is: " & @TAB & $HexNumber & @CRLF & _
             "err.lastdllerror is: " & @TAB & $oMyError.lastdllerror & @CRLF & _
             "err.scriptline is: " & @TAB & $oMyError.scriptline & @CRLF & _
             "err.source is: " & @TAB & $oMyError.source & @CRLF & _
             "err.helpfile is: " & @TAB & $oMyError.helpfile & @CRLF & _
             "err.helpcontext is: " & @TAB & $oMyError.helpcontext _
            )
SetError(1) ; to check for after this function returns
Endfunc

This way you can access an EXCEL files as a database.

Regards,

ptrex

Edited September 14, 2012 by ptrex

[zfisherdrums]

Nice example. I've been using excel as a data store for application maps. ADO makes working with them so easy. : )

[ptrex]

@zfisherdrums

Thanks

The way ADO handles Excel gives in some occations more flexibilty to select data.

Which is not possible using standard Excel functions.

That's why I sometimes move over to this approach as well.

Regards,

ptrex

[MatteoGuallini]

I'm a newbye

Where I can find documentation for implementing this way of using ado?

[ptrex]

@lapasuc

A good way to get started withe ADO is here :

Learn ADO

regards,

ptrex

[MatteoGuallini]

Thanks a lot.

[Vishal85]

Thanks for sharing this info....It helped me a lot...I believe its a faster way to read data from excel.

I am looking for a way to insert data into excel using ADO, SQL queries. I googled and also searched on this forum but its not working for me. Can you please provide me some direction or give some sample code to insert data into excel using ADO and SQL queries. I am able to connect to excel and read data from it but i am not able to insert data in it. Please help. I dont want to use the standard excel udf functions as i think ADO is a faster way and i need to insert data in excel very heavily.

[Vishal85]

I got this working....The issue was with IMEX value in the connection object for excel file...IMEX accepts values 0 (use native type) and 1 (considering everything as string) only....I changed IMEX to 0 and all worked fine.....Found this after doing some reading and some digging....Thanks everybody!!

Sample code here...Hope it helps!!

$s_DataFileName = "C:\test.xls"

Global $s_Filename = FileGetShortName($s_DataFileName)

Dim $oConn

$oConn = ObjCreate("ADODB.Connection")

$oConn.Open("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _

"Data Source=" & $s_Filename & ";" & _

"Extended Properties=""Excel 8.0;HDR=YES;IMEX=0;"";")

$oConn.Execute("INSERT INTO [sheet1$](TEstCol1, TestCol2, TestCol3) VALUES ('Nice one', 'Testttt', 'Hi there')")

$oConn.Close()

[maniootek]

I want to use this script but without variable 

$s_Tablename

I want script read the first sheet name and read data from it.

Any idea?

[ptrex]

@maniootek

The variable in the first script is pointing to sheet1 which is the first sheet.

 

Global $s_Tablename = "[Sheet1$]"

Rgds,

ptrex

 

[water]

NB: The names of the sheets vary depending on the language (or if manually changed by a user). A script would run more reliable if the sheet number could be specified.