Re: Import an Excel table to a Postgresql one - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dann Corbit
Subject Re: Import an Excel table to a Postgresql one
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Msg-id D425483C2C5C9F49B5B7A41F894415470554AD@postal.corporate.connx.com
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In response to Import an Excel table to a Postgresql one  (Daniele Beauquier <beauquier@univ-paris12.fr>)
List pgsql-general
Yet another alternative:

Create an ODBC, OLEDB or JDBC connection to PostgreSQL and Excel.
Create a target table in the PostgreSQL table with the attributes that
you desire.
Do an INSERT/SELECT to move the data.

All the data type translations will be done for you by the driver.

If you have thousands of spreadsheet tables, I would suggest using a
specialized tool for the job instead of a manual process to eliminate
errors.

You might want to rename the tables imported by the ODBC driver for MS
Excel, because it will have strange default names like:
country_codes_Excel.dbo.`Sheet1$` which are not exactly enlightening,
unless the spreadsheets already have reasonable names spelled out for
them.

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> Daniele Beauquier
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 9:51 AM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: [GENERAL] Import an Excel table to a Postgresql one
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> How to import an Excel table into a Postgresql table in a simple way?

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