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 DTS job to import Excel spreadsheet into SQL 7 DB over the web.

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Posted - 2001-02-06 : 18:01:06
Roy writes "I'm building a data warehouse where users will occasionally need to insert large blocks of data from remote locations. The source data will be contained in Excel spreadsheets.

My thought is to have the users FTP the spreadsheets to a server linked to the database server and execute a job via the web which will a DTS package to run.

Does this seem reasonable? Does anyone have experience with such a scenario? I'd be grateful for any tips, tricks, or pitfalls that you might be willing to share.

Thanks in advance,
Roy"
   

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