Most people do not know that there is a really simple way to copy and paste data from Excel to SQL Server. In this article, I will show you what you need to know to copy and paste data from Excel to SQL Server.
I will go through and show the technique using simple step-by-step instructions, and I will also cover a few special cases that are great to know.
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