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arkiboys
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1433 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-04 : 09:09:36
An excel spreadsheet has to be open on Machine B on the network to pull data from a third party tool.
I have to refresh several columns in this spreadsheet every minute with new data.
Every time there is a new data into the columns i.e. columns 7 and 10, the spreadsheet pulls data from the third party tool automatically and populates other columns i.e. columns 12-15.
Then I will have to retrieve the new data from the spreadsheet into sql server 2005.

So first I wrote a query to use to populate the spreadsheet each time with the result using Import Wizard.
It gives an error: 0xc0202009
And I am not sure if my approach for this project is correct?

What do you think?
Thanks

Hommer
Aged Yak Warrior

808 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-04 : 13:24:53
If there is no presentaion to the users is involved, try to avoid using excel as the middleman during the ETL process.

you will have hard time
1) to manage who/which program has the right to write to it at particular moment; and,

2) to override excel's own formatting capability.
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