
Right-click on the star and select Paste.Go to the last row at the bottom and locate the row with a star in the left-most column. Switch back to SQL Server Management Studio, and select the tab with the 200 rows from your table.Then, right-click the selected cells and select Copy. Now, also remember to include an extra blank left-most column in your selection. Switch to Excel and select the rows and columns to copy.This will bring up a grid with the first 200 rows of data in the table.Right-click the table name and select Edit Top 200 Rows, the fourth option from the top.Expand the Databases and the Tables folders for the table where you would like to paste the Excel data.The thing to keep in mind here is to also include an extra left-most blank column in Excel when copying the data from Excel to SQL Server.įollow these steps to copy and paste the data from Excel to SQL Server using a table with an auto-incrementing ID column: The same technique can also be used to copy and paste data into tables that have an auto-incrementing ID column (identity column).
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How to insert data from Excel to SQL Server with an identity column See the section “Tips and tricks” below for more details. This is to check that there are no mismatches between your data from Excel and the SQL Server table (such as the number of columns) and that your data in Excel validates with the data types in the SQL Server table. Remember: Always start with copying and pasting a single row of data from Excel to SQL Server.

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Summary – insert data from Excel to SQL Serverīefore I founded SQL Spreads (an Excel Add-In to Import and Update SQL Server data from within Excel), I worked as a Business Intelligence consultant for many years using Microsoft’s BI-tools, such as SQL Server, SSIS, Reporting Services, Excel, etc. Connect to your database and insert data from Excel How to import data from Excel to SQL Server – SQL Spreads method Tips when copying and pasting data from Excel to SQL server

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