| Today I received a list of data from a colleague in an Excel spreadsheet. I needed to take this information and retrieve other information from a database. On the spreadsheet data is in column A. In column B put the following: ="insert into #tmp value ('"&A1&"')" Then fill down the data in your SQL app Create table #tmp ( f1 varchar(20) ) copy and paste the SQL statements and run. You now have a temp table that can be used to extract other information from your database. |