OLE DB (Object Linking and Embedding, Database, sometimes written as OLEDB or OLE-DB) an API designed by Microsoft providing a set of interfaces that allows accessing data from a variety of sources that do not necessarily implement SQL.
using System; using System.Data.OleDb; using System.Data.SqlClient; namespace ExcelMigration { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { // Excel File Path Location string excelfilepath = @"C:Users akesh.kumarDocumentsemployee.xls"; // SQL Server TableName string TableName = "Sample"; // Make Sure Your Sheet Name And Columns Names Are Correct, here sheet name is sheet4 string exceldataquery = "select FirstName,LastName,Department,Gender from [Sheet1$]"; try { // Excel Connection String and SQL Server Connection String string excelconnectionstring = @"provider=microsoft.jet.oledb.4.0; data source=" + excelfilepath + ";extended properties=" + ""excel 4.0;hdr=yes;""; string sqlconnectionstring = @"server=(localdb)ProjectsV13; database = TestDB; connection reset = false"; //Execute A Query To Drase Any Previous Data From Employee Table string deletesqlquery = "delete from " + TableName; SqlConnection sqlconn = new SqlConnection(sqlconnectionstring); SqlCommand sqlcmd = new SqlCommand(deletesqlquery, sqlconn); sqlconn.Open(); sqlcmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); sqlconn.Close(); // Build A Connection To Excel Data Source And Execute The Command OleDbConnection oledbconn = new OleDbConnection(excelconnectionstring); OleDbCommand oledbcmd = new OleDbCommand(exceldataquery, oledbconn); oledbconn.Open(); OleDbDataReader dr = oledbcmd.ExecuteReader(); // Connect To SQL Server DB And Perform a Bulk Copy Operation SqlBulkCopy bulkcopy = new SqlBulkCopy(sqlconnectionstring); // Provide Excel To Table Column Mapping If Any Difference In Name bulkcopy.ColumnMappings.Add("FirstName", "FirstName"); bulkcopy.ColumnMappings.Add("LastName", "LastName"); bulkcopy.ColumnMappings.Add("Department", "Department"); bulkcopy.ColumnMappings.Add("Gender", "Gender"); // Provide The Table Name For Bulk Copy bulkcopy.DestinationTableName = TableName; while (dr.Read()) { bulkcopy.WriteToServer(dr); } oledbconn.Close(); } catch (Exception ex) { //handle exception } } } }
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