Dong Lam Trien

Dong Lam Trien

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error: "Not a legal OleAut"when importing Excel2007 into SQL

Sep 17 2014 10:16 PM
I am be an error importing the Excel2007: "Not a legal OleAut date", you see my code below:


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public static void ImportToSql(string excelfilepath)
        {
            string ssqltable = "TABHD";
            string myexceldataquery = "SELECT * FROM [dbo_TABHD]";
            try
            {
                string sexcelconnectionstring = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source =" + excelfilepath + "; Extended Properties=\"Excel 12.0; HDR=Yes; IMEX=2\"";
                string ssqlconnectionstring = @"server = itfriend;Database=HD;integrated security = true";
                //execute a query to erase any previous data from our destination table
                string sclearsql = "delete " + ssqltable;
                INSERTING IT.INSTEAD I WANT TO UPDATE TABLE DATA"
                SqlConnection sqlconn = new SqlConnection(ssqlconnectionstring);                
                OleDbConnection oledbconn = new OleDbConnection(sexcelconnectionstring);
                OleDbCommand oledbcmd = new OleDbCommand(myexceldataquery, oledbconn);
                oledbconn.Open();
                OleDbDataReader dr = oledbcmd.ExecuteReader();
                SqlBulkCopy bulkcopy = new SqlBulkCopy(ssqlconnectionstring);
                bulkcopy.DestinationTableName = ssqltable;
                bulkcopy.WriteToServer(dr); // Eror in here: "Not a legal OleAut date"
                Console.WriteLine(".xlsx file imported succssessfully into database.", bulkcopy.NotifyAfter);
                oledbconn.Close();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                //handle exception
                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message.ToString(), "Warning !");
            }
        }
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