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  • I have a 1000 record excell sheet and I need to import this into sql database. How much disk space is required?

  • What is the size of the each record or what datatype and size you have in the file?

    Use import/export to see what data types does excel have.

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  • Absolutely no way to say from the information you've given. You haven't said how many columns the spreadsheet has. You haven't said anything about the data in those columns.

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  • I know I am sorry to provide the insufficient information. All I know is this document has 1000 records and I have to break it down into about 10 tables with different data type for example ( varchar, text,number,identity field, int, etc.)

  • No way to estimate that without knowing more....could be single character rows to full rows...drastic difference in size.

  • hydbadrose (9/15/2011)


    I know I am sorry to provide the insufficient information. All I know is this document has 1000 records and I have to break it down into about 10 tables with different data type for example ( varchar, text,number,identity field, int, etc.)

    If possible post a sample row for each table and out of 1000 how many rows does each table takes?

    More information= Effiecient solutions:-D

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  • hydbadrose (9/15/2011)


    I know I am sorry to provide the insufficient information. All I know is this document has 1000 records and I have to break it down into about 10 tables with different data type for example ( varchar, text,number,identity field, int, etc.)

    Could you please check the size of the Excel document? 😎

    Either way, a thousand rows in a Excel document shouldn't cause a dent on space allocation on any database.

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  • The answer is 42.

  • NJ-DBA (9/15/2011)


    The answer is 42.

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