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newnoise
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 Posted - 2013-07-16 : 22:53:58
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| I'm having an issue when trying to import a SQL query into Excel. When importing a variable in that has a date or datetime format in SQL, Excel invariably imports the values as strings rather than as dates. I've tried using cast/convert to change the date format, but the same thing always happens: Excel imports the field with the new formatting attached to it, but regardless of its format, it comes into Excel as a string. This is causing problems, for example, when I try to apply filters to this newly imported field. A date field in Excel can be filtered by date component (years/months/days), but a string field shows all values as distinct rather than connecting, say, all values that have '2013' as their year. Does anyone know how to get a SQL Server date field to import AS A DATE into Excel? I'm using VBA to do the import, relying on a QueryTable and SQL string.SQL Server 2012 |
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madhivanan
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Posted - 2013-07-29 : 04:30:57
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| Did you format the cell as datetime?MadhivananFailing to plan is Planning to fail |
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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks
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Posted - 2013-07-29 : 05:27:18
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Did you export the column as DATETIME? If not, make sure you are using hyphens to try to convince Excel the content is a date.
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