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copied!<p>Using OLEDB to access/process Excel data is better than to loop over .Cells(); putting a (selection of) a sheet with one SQL statement into a database table or .GetString a resultset as a HTML table without any Fors is attractive.</p> <p>The con: if your data contains garbage, the high level ADO/OLEDB facilities won't give you a chance to interfere.</p> <p>ADDED:</p> <p>While doing some experiments wrt what "all" means for an Excel sheet, I stumbled upon an interesting fact? about the "$". Perhaps I'm not the only one being not aware of this:</p> <p>This is the output from my VBScript test script:</p> <pre><code>------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SELECT * FROM [SakAct$] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |actor_id|first_name|last_name|last_update | | 3|ED |CHASE |2/15/2006 4:34:33 AM| | 4|JENNIFER |DAVIS |2/15/2006 4:34:33 AM| | 1|PENELOPE |GUINESS |2/15/2006 4:34:33 AM| | 2|NICK |WAHLBERG |2/15/2006 4:34:33 AM| | <NULL>|ED |CHASE |2/15/2006 4:34:33 AM| | 5| |DAVIS |2/15/2006 4:34:33 AM| | 6|PENELOPE | |2/15/2006 4:34:33 AM| | 7|NICK |WAHLBERG | <NULL> | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SELECT * FROM [SakAct] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |actor_id|first_name|last_name|last_update | | 3|ED |CHASE |2/15/2006 4:34:33 AM| | 4|JENNIFER |DAVIS |2/15/2006 4:34:33 AM| | 1|PENELOPE |GUINESS |2/15/2006 4:34:33 AM| | 2|NICK |WAHLBERG |2/15/2006 4:34:33 AM| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </code></pre> <p>Looks like [Sheet$] turns on an Excel Quirks mode, that will consider more rows than the stricter approach enabled by [Sheet].</p>

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