How do I read in data from an Excel Spreadsheet?

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Hi!

I’m new to Toad World, so please correct me if I don’t know all the ropes here!

I’m a SQL Server DBA, but I want to update an Oracle database with data which has been supplied to me on an Excel spreadsheet.

In SQL Server, I import the spreadsheet to an import$ table, update the destination from the import$ table using an inner join, and drop the import$ table.

There is an import utility in Toad, but it seems to only want to import data from another database, not Excel

I could use SQL*Loader, but it’s five years since I did this and I’m less than confident

I could write multiple insert statements using the data and get it in that way, but that’s not very elegant is it?

I’ve had a suggestion that I attach the Excel as an external table - which sounds a bit like what I do in SQL Server, but I don’t know how to do it in Oracle

I would be grateful for advice

Regards

Jack

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Right-click on the table in the schema browser and choose “Import Data”. That will take you to a window where you can choose from several different file
types, including excel. It should be pretty self-explanatory.

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How do I read in data from an Excel Spreadsheet?

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Hi!

I’m new to Toad World, so please correct me if I don’t know all the ropes here!

I’m a SQL Server DBA, but I want to update an Oracle database with data which has been supplied to me on an Excel spreadsheet.

In SQL Server, I import the spreadsheet to an import$ table, update the destination from the import$ table using an inner join, and drop the import$ table.

There is an import utility in Toad, but it seems to only want to import data from another database, not Excel

I could use SQL*Loader, but it’s five years since I did this and I’m less than confident

I could write multiple insert statements using the data and get it in that way, but that’s not very elegant is it?

I’ve had a suggestion that I attach the Excel as an external table - which sounds a bit like what I do in SQL Server, but I don’t know how to do it in Oracle

I would be grateful for advice

Regards

Jack

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