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Reading Multiple worksheets from Excel workbook

Asked by: MrAgile

HI There,

I have a workbook with around 50 worksheets that I want to import into sql server. I was wondering what the best approach is to read all of them at once and then perform the import . i'm using vs 2008 / c# with the enterprise library.

Could someone post some code please ?

Cheers

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by: jandromedaPosted on 2008-03-11 at 04:43:59ID: 21094703

You can get an idea from the code given below. And another thing you can do is write a SSIS package to do that transform. I think this would be that easiest.

string conStr = @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\My_Documents\Data.xls; Jet OLEDB:Engine Type=5;Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;";
                        
                        OleDbDataAdapter sheetAdapter = null;
                        DataTable sheetData = null;
                        DataSet excelData = new DataSet();
                        OleDbConnection con = new OleDbConnection(conStr);
                        
                        con.Open();
                        
                        DataTable sheets = con.GetOleDbSchemaTable(OleDbSchemaGuid.Tables, new object[]{});
                        
                        foreach (DataRow sheet in sheets.Rows)
                        {
                                sheetAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter("select * from [" + sheet["TABLE_NAME"].ToString() + "]",con);
                                sheetData = new DataTable(sheet["TABLE_NAME"].ToString()); 
                                sheetAdapter.Fill(sheetData); 
                                excelData.Tables.Add(sheetData);
                        }
 
                        con.Close();

                                              
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by: apeterPosted on 2008-03-11 at 10:21:51ID: 21097869

Hi,
   You can read Every sheet at a time and then every row at a time in a sheet and u can update to the DB in 2 ways

1.  Form a xml as and when you read the date from excel and send this xml to the DB and do the updation using openxml in SQL server, here the round trips are just the number of sheets in the excel file.

2. Read each row from a single sheet and update the database immediately. Add reference to excel object in your project
Excel.Application objwb = null;
            Excel.Workbook wb = null;
            Excel.Sheets sheets = null;
            Excel.Range range = null;
            Excel.Worksheet WSheet  = null;
            objwb = new Excel.Application();

                    wb = objwb.Workbooks.Open(<YOUR FILE PATH>, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing,  Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing);

                    sheets = wb.Worksheets;
                    WSheet = sheets.get_Item(<YOUR SHEET INDEX>) as Excel.Worksheet;
                  range = WSheet.get_Range("A" + i.ToString(), "L" + i.ToString()); //SET RANGE(columns) TO READ FROM A ROW
                   System.Array myvalues = (System.Array)range.Cells.Value2;

// myvalues.GetValue(1, 1) Will give the value of second row , First Column Cell value.

-AP

 

by: MrAgilePosted on 2008-03-11 at 15:19:47ID: 21100981

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the code suggestions and advice. jandromeda I tried your code and found it to work well however the workook has a few views and a sheet that I would like to omit from being read in the first place. I have attached the sheet, could you please have a look at it for me? I only want the sheets beginning with the 4 and only the default views. I'm just not sure of the syntax to seperate those parts out.

Sean - thanks in  advance

 

by: jandromedaPosted on 2008-03-11 at 20:57:34ID: 21102906

If you want to process sheets starting with 4 you can change the code like this. I will check how you can omit views and let you know.

if (sheet["TABLE_NAME"].ToString().IndexOf('4') == 0) // Process only if the sheet name begins with a 4
                {
                    sheetAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter("select * from [" + sheet["TABLE_NAME"].ToString() + "]", con);
                    sheetData = new DataTable(sheet["TABLE_NAME"].ToString());
                    sheetAdapter.Fill(sheetData);
                    excelData.Tables.Add(sheetData);
                }

                                              
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by: MrAgilePosted on 2008-03-11 at 22:31:35ID: 21103284

HI jandromeda,

It seems to work to a certain extent. It seems to be getting all of the data. I have only 32 sheets that I really need and I seem to be getting the right sheets  anyway. I'm just not sure how to seperate the rows and columns out so I can update sql server.

I only really need columns f3 to f6. Seem to be getting the first sheet ok but the rest are missing. Have I broken something?

sean - thanks in advance


        public bool ReadUploadedFile(String XLFilepath, String XLFileName)
        {
 
            //get the current file and path
            _currentFile = String.Concat(XLFilepath, XLFileName);
 
            //get the connection string
            string conStr = @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" + _currentFile + "; Jet OLEDB:Engine Type=5;Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;";
 
            //initiallise dat objects
            OleDbDataAdapter sheetAdapter = null;
            DataTable sheetData = null;
            DataSet excelData = new DataSet();
            OleDbConnection con = new OleDbConnection(conStr);
 
            //check the connection state
            if (con.State != System.Data.ConnectionState.Open)
            {
                con.Open();
            }
 
            //fill the datatable
            DataTable sheets = con.GetOleDbSchemaTable(OleDbSchemaGuid.Tables, new object[] { });
 
            int counter = 0;
 
            //loop through each row 
            foreach (DataRow sheet in sheets.Rows)
            {
 
                _isValidSheet = true;
                //lots of dodgy data need to make sure we only have what we need.
                _TmpTablename = sheet["TABLE_NAME"].ToString();
 
                //** was not my intention to hardcode the names but timeframes were tight
                //check to see if the view is the one that we want
              
                //make sure that we have no extra sheets for each store
                if (_TmpTablename.IndexOf('4') == 0 || _TmpTablename.EndsWith("Print_Area") || _TmpTablename.IndexOf("All Stores") == 0)
                {
                    _isValidSheet = false;
                }
 
                //if it's not valid then skip it
                if (_isValidSheet && counter <= 31)
                {
                    //SELECT FROM the current sheet 
                    sheetAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter("select * from [" + sheet["TABLE_NAME"].ToString() + "]", con);
 
                    //create the datatable
                    sheetData = new DataTable(sheet["TABLE_NAME"].ToString());
 
                    //fill the dataadapter
                    sheetAdapter.Fill(sheetData);
 
                    //update the dataset from the datatable
                    excelData.Tables.Add(sheetData);
 
                    //DataRow[] rows = sheetData.Select();
 
                    //// Print the value one column of each DataRow.
                    //for (int i = 0; i < rows.Length; i++)
                    //{
                    //    Response.Write(rows[2]["F3"] + " <br> " + _TmpTablename + " <br> ");
                    //}
 
                    counter += 1;
                }
            }
          
 
            if (excelData.Tables.Count >0)
            {
 
               GridView1.DataSource = excelData;
                GridView1.DataBind();   
            }
 
 
            //check the connection state
            if (con.State != System.Data.ConnectionState.Closed)
            {
                con.Close();
            }
 
            return true;
        }

                                              
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by: MrAgilePosted on 2008-03-13 at 14:53:14ID: 21121228

Hi jandromeda,

I got  it all working ok. Thanks for all your help on this.

Sean

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