SSMS Export to Excel
You’re running an ad-hoc query in a Microsoft SQL Server database with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and need to further analyze the result set in an Excel spreadsheet. How do you export the data?
2025-02-03
Excel
Getting Started with Power Query M Language in Excel
This article introduces M language concepts and examples of using M to manipulate data in Excel.
2023-10-02
Excel LET Formula for creating small values tables from a table or range
The Excel (365) "LET" formula below will return a formatted SQL Values Table "T1" that can be pasted into SSMS.
2022-04-06 (first published: 2022-03-29)
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Excel Formula to create SQL Script for a Values Table
Here is an Excel formula that generates a SQL script from an Excel table
2021-07-30 (first published: 2021-07-26)
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Chopping Off Data
An ETL issue with Excel causes issues, because the users didn't realize a limitation.
2020-10-19
298 reads
Analyze SQL Server Results in Excel with Conditional Formatting
Learn how to format your SQL Server results in Excel using conditional formatting to quickly identify patterns and issues.
2020-03-10
Read Excel File in SQL Server with OPENROWSET or OPENDATASOURCE
In this tip we look at how to read an Excel file from within SQL Server using OpenRowSet and OpenDataSource along with the possible errors you may encounter and how to fix these issues.
2019-10-17
The Best of Both Worlds: Using Excel and Power BI Together
Excel and Power BI work well together. This allows you to use the two tools together to provide for many types of business workflow and BI practices. You can publish an Excel file to Power BI to share with others, analyse a Power BI dataset in Excel or import either an Excel workbook or Excel data to Power BI. You can gain the workgroup power and business-orientation of Power BI without losing the ease and versatility of Excel. Saurabh shows how.
2017-09-22
6,233 reads
Export data from SQL Server to Excel
What native SQL Server options are available to export to Excel? Jeremy Kadlec explains.
2017-06-30
5,930 reads
Excel File Data Validation for SQL Server Imports
Jeffrey Yao suggests a solution to validate Excel data via PowerShell and Regular Expressions.
2015-09-14
3,457 reads
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