Comments on: Excel ODBC Driver Woes http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/03/37 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:01:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Andrew http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/03/37/comment-page-1#comment-28758 Andrew Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:52:59 +0000 http://www.yorkspace.com/?p=37#comment-28758 It's funny looking back through the dates of posts with people having the same issue. You'd think that after this many years, a solution could have been implemented. As it stands, there is data in thousands of Excel sheets that I was attempting to query and return some pertinent values, but it doesn't look like that will be the case... Way to go, Microsoft. It’s funny looking back through the dates of posts with people having the same issue. You’d think that after this many years, a solution could have been implemented. As it stands, there is data in thousands of Excel sheets that I was attempting to query and return some pertinent values, but it doesn’t look like that will be the case… Way to go, Microsoft.

]]> By: Rob http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/03/37/comment-page-1#comment-28700 Rob Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:23:54 +0000 http://www.yorkspace.com/?p=37#comment-28700 Thanks, you saved me a bunch of time! Thanks, you saved me a bunch of time!

]]> By: sweetha http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/03/37/comment-page-1#comment-26875 sweetha Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:02:21 +0000 http://www.yorkspace.com/?p=37#comment-26875 I tried by setting IMEX=1 in extended propreties but it didn't work for me.Can you please help me to fix this bug. I tried by setting IMEX=1 in extended propreties but it didn’t work for me.Can you please help me to fix this bug.

]]> By: Bajrang Gupa http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/03/37/comment-page-1#comment-26144 Bajrang Gupa Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:15:15 +0000 http://www.yorkspace.com/?p=37#comment-26144 Hi Sam, Could you please help me with the work around that you have done? have you been able to use the updating using the SQL Query or used the excel concatenation function? I am looking for the SQL query in case it is possible. UPDATE [Sheet1$] set COLUMN1=CONCAT(COLUMN1,' '); gives me a nasty Invalid use of vertical bars error. The excel concatenation function i cannot use until, it can be incorporated using a Java function. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Bajrang Gupta bg.winlin@gmail.com Hi Sam,
Could you please help me with the work around that you have done?

have you been able to use the updating using the SQL Query or used the excel concatenation function?

I am looking for the SQL query in case it is possible. UPDATE [Sheet1$] set COLUMN1=CONCAT(COLUMN1,’ ‘); gives me a nasty Invalid use of vertical bars error.

The excel concatenation function i cannot use until, it can be incorporated using a Java function.
Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Bajrang Gupta
bg.winlin@gmail.com

]]> By: Sam http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/03/37/comment-page-1#comment-24617 Sam Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:52:21 +0000 http://www.yorkspace.com/?p=37#comment-24617 Just came across your post in a google search. I had numeric data in a column where some of the values began with zero. Some of these were showing up as null and after reading your post and looking at the KB article, I realized the ODBC driver thought that these values were dates! My solution/workaround was to create a new column and use the concatenate function to add the letter "X" to every value. When I query the new column through ODBC all records were returned because they were all text values. When using the query recordset I just had to strip off the letter "X" from each value. Thanks for the post. Just came across your post in a google search. I had numeric data in a column where some of the values began with zero. Some of these were showing up as null and after reading your post and looking at the KB article, I realized the ODBC driver thought that these values were dates!

My solution/workaround was to create a new column and use the concatenate function to add the letter “X” to every value. When I query the new column through ODBC all records were returned because they were all text values. When using the query recordset I just had to strip off the letter “X” from each value.

Thanks for the post.

]]> By: Matschek http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/03/37/comment-page-1#comment-4082 Matschek Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:24:20 +0000 http://www.yorkspace.com/?p=37#comment-4082 Glad to see that I'm not the only one who is appalled at this implementation of this "feature"... Any 3rd party solution available? Matschek Glad to see that I’m not the only one who is appalled at this implementation of this “feature”…
Any 3rd party solution available?

Matschek

]]> By: straylight http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/03/37/comment-page-1#comment-92 straylight Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:56:25 +0000 http://www.yorkspace.com/?p=37#comment-92 WOW, considering i just stumbed across your blog, Im pretty appreciative. You saved my ass here, (as well as a lot of time). Ridiculous, thats one of the worst 'limitations' I've seen. Outlook has some pretty lame ones too, i feel your pain though. Especially you are trying to incorporate this as more than a one time procedure.... -stray WOW, considering i just stumbed across your blog, Im pretty appreciative. You saved my ass here, (as well as a lot of time).

Ridiculous, thats one of the worst ‘limitations’ I’ve seen. Outlook has some pretty lame ones too, i feel your pain though. Especially you are trying to incorporate this as more than a one time procedure….

-stray

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