Tuesday, January 24, 2012

String Concatenation in Excel

String concatenation, Excel way: "string1" & "string2".



Today I had to write a SQL script based on data from an Excel file. The file had about 670 rows which in the resulting script should become 670 lines like this one:

insert into sample_table (value1, value2) values (value_from_cell_B2, value_from_cell_C2)


I added a new column to the spreadsheet for SQL statement, wrote following formula and applied it for each row.

insert into sample_table (value1, value2) values ('"&B2&"', '"&C2&"')


Then I copied all cells from the SQL column to the script file. Done.

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