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I need to import an excel spreadsheet daily to a SQL table. I have a primary key on the ID which is a unique number to each record. The problem I'm running into is one of the date fields changes and when SQL 7.0 imports the spreadsheet if it sees a different date it trys to add the record again which violates the primary key and it bombs the whole import. How can I get it to import to the same record and just update the date field of that record?

Posted 1/2/2001

Matthew Pomar

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I'm not so sure I completely understand your problem, but here's my stab at it: You may want to run this in two process. First, import your spreadsheet into a new temp table. You can do this using DTS and executing a saved package from the repository. Second, create a job that merges the data from temp table into your destination table. Hope this helps. Regards, Matthew Pomar

Posted 1/2/2001

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