Excel Web Query to SQL DB table

  • Hi,

    I am trying to get data from a web page (stock market site have top gainers/losers table).

    Created a web query in excel, and imported the excel data to sql table, using DTS packages, and schedules jobs to run every 3 minutes.

    But If have the Excel running to refresh data very 1 minute, my scheduled jobs fail.

    But if the excel is closed, the jobs are running fine, but then there will not be any data updates.

    How can i have an automated job to get the web data to my sql table.

    Thanks.

  • Hi, i have the same problem.

    I need webdata in sql table and want to cur our the "data from web" out of excel.

    Does anyone have a solution?

  • does excel sheet call a web service?

  • Well in excel it extracts a number form a website, on the web page there is only a number i want to import into a sql table.

  • Have you tried using SSIS with a web service task to query the website, then store it to a variable of type object, then use that variable as an insertion object into the database.

  • What is SSIS?

  • SQL Server Intergration Services - Basically the new and improved DTS in SQL 2005 onwards.

  • ok, i thought this was going to be easy. my sql knowledge is still limited.

    I'm using postgreSQL, can this be done in the as well?

  • I am running SQL 2005, so do i need to install nay add-on patches to my sql server?

  • @Hein 50303

    Unsure on PostgreSQL, you will need to see if it has tools like SSIS in SQL. If you have MS SQL on a different server, then just install the PostgreSQL ODBC driver and link your SQL server which can run SSIS to your Progress DB.

    Also please note that this is primarily a Microsoft SQL Server site, you might be best posting PostgreSQL questions on a dedicated PostgreSQL forum.

    @wrathyimp

    As long as you have Business Intelligence Development Studio installed on your local machine to develop SSIS packages then no.

    If you dont have SSIS expereince, I would recommend looking through the Stairways section to get some expereince with SSIS as its very different to DTS.

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