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How can I export the whole database from sql server to excel sheet

Hello,

How can I export the whole database from sql server to excel sheet on a one click button event, or with only one option in menu like, "Export To Excel"

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John Claes

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John Claes

@samirbhogayta:
can you answer my questions? so I can help you further?

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Jesse Houwing

You can query the content of a database table from inside Excel using the data tools, but Excel isn't the ideal tool to use for exporting your data. You could try Access, which is a far better match, but even Access has its limitations.

What are you trying to accomplish here? Maybe we can help you on a more architectural/design level first, before trying to solve a problem with the wrong tool for the job.

Mark Geerlings

A "whole database" in SQL Server usually contains multiple tables, and these usually have very different column configurations. How do you expect a single Excel spreadsheet to accomodate this variety of columns? Then there is also the issue of the number of records per sheet that Excel can support (ike poor-begger already mentioned) and this limit is *FAR* less than what a SQL Server table could hold.

Extracting data from a single SQL Server table to an Excel spreadsheet may be a realistic task *IF* the table does not have too many rows, or if you limit the number of rows to what Excel can handle.