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Import MS Excel data to SQL Server table using C#

By Musakkhir , 13 Aug 2013
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Introduction
If you already have data in MS Excel file, and want to migrate your MS Excel data to SQL Server table, follow the below steps: Step 1: Lets take an example to import data to SQL Server table. I am going to import student information data from an MS Excel sheet to the tStudent SQL table: Step 2: Now design a tStudent table in SQL Server
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Your MS Excel sheet and SQL table are ready, now its time to write C# code to import the Excel sheet into the tStudent table. Step 3: Add these two namespaces in your class file:
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Step 4: Add below method in your class file, you can call this method from any other class and pass the Excel file path:
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In the above function you have to pass the MS Excel file path as a parameter. If you want to import your data by providing the client access to
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select the Excel file and import, then you might have to use the ASP.NET File control and upload the Excel file on the server in some temp folder, then use the file path of the uploaded Excel file and pass the path in the above function. Once data import is complete then you can delete the temporary file. The above method first deletes the existing data from the destination table, then imports the Excel data into the same table.

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Software Developer (Senior) India Musakkhir Sayyed is a Software Engineer working in IT Company. He has been a programmer/Software Developer for past 2 years specializing in .NET/C# development. Currently, he is a Silverlight, WPF/Sharepoint developer specializing in BCS Services. Follow on
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