I have a stored procedure that returns formatted, delimited text using dbms_output.put_line statements. Currently, we run the script in Toad and manually paste the output into Excel, but I was hoping I could cut out a step and get the output directly into Excel. I created a connection and set the properties to run the SP: that works fine (more or less -- the next step would have been to figure out how to supply a parameter). However, since no query is being returned, Excel doesn't recognize that there's anything to be done. Is there any way to do this automagically? Thanks.
ETA: I was just trying to figure out if I could build a cursor by inserting the GET_LINE output into it and return that, but that didn't look like it was going to work out.
If you are using Toad most recent versions (10+) allow you to save your output as an excel file. Earlier versions also allow this but with different commands.
In the output section at the bottom right click on any part of the results:
select "Export Dataset".
select your choice of export file (Excel file)
select a file path and file name
choose whatever options such as saving the sql on a separate worksheet you need
press the button in the lower right corner
Even if the output is comma delimited csv you can then have excel convert it into a real xls or xlsx format.
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I noticed that anytime I export from somewhere like Salesforce where the Phone = +123124141.
The data in Excel will just become =123124141 or #NAME? or some other Error spouted from Excel.
This makes data patch extremely painful and manual. Any ideas how to get around this?
When you create the file, use a different extension than .csv or .txt (these ones are interpreted by EXCEL as a green light to interpret columns as numeric/date, etc and format accordingly. Use .DAT, for example. When you open it from within EXCEL it will invoke the text import wizard, and there you should choose comma separated (or tab separated, etc, as the case maybe), and on the final screen of the wizard, choose the columns you don't want reformatted (you can choose all of them, if you like), and choose Text. Now the column values will be kept intact.
Alternatively you can first create a blank workbook/sheet, and use Data From Text to invoke the Wizard and bring the data in the same way.
If you don't want EXCEL to launch and open when you double-click on a .CSV file, without asking questions, you can remove the file-association (of CSV with EXCEL) using Windows explorer.
It is reasonably easy to develop a VBA macro to import such delimited files using 'TEXT' data types to automate what the Wizard would do.
I collect various data in time plots. If I copy the timeplot data and then paste it into Excel, the number format is often wrong. For example, I often get a date like Aug 94 instead of the actual number from the TimePlot. Unfortunately, I can't easily format this date into a number either, since the formatted number does not match the actual number from the timeplot. If I format the date in the same format as the number above and below, then I get the number 34547. However, this number does not correspond to the actual number of the TimePlot. Anyone know how I can prevent this problem?
You can only solve this on the Excel side, AnyLogic provides the raw data for you. Excel then interprets stuff. You can test it by pasting the chart raw data into a txt or csv file.
So either fix your Excel settings or paste into a csv, then into an xlsx.
Or better still: Do not manually paste at all. Instead, write your model results into the AnyLogic database and export to Excel from there: this takes away a lot of the pain for you. Check the example models to learn how to do that.
This is not AnyLogic question, rather an Excel & computer formatting problem. One way of resolving this is changing computer's date and time settings.
Another way is to save your output at txt file in AnyLogic. Replace all . with ,. Then open empty Excel, select Text format for the columns. Copy-paste from the txt file.
In Excel there are a few options
when you paste use paste as text only option
But this does not always work as Excel will still try to format the stuff for you
Use the Paste Special option and then choose text
Also possible this will not work, based on your Excel settings.
Paste using the text import wizard
(This works for me without fail)
On step 2 choose tab delimited
On step 3 choose Column format as text for every column (you need to select them in the little diagram below)
You will then see the data exactly as it came from AnyLogic. See the example below where I purposefully imported some text which has something that Excel will think is a date. You will now be able to see what in your data made Excel thing your data needed to be formatted the way it is and then you can fix it. (post a new question if you struggle with this conversion)
But as noted by other answers first prize is to write all the important data to external files. But I know that even I sometimes want to export data from a chart and review it in Excel. Option 3 works for me everytime
I'm getting either of those two errors when trying to export data from a set of excel spreadsheets.
Simplified scenario:
two excel spreadsheets containing 1 text column
in file 1 the text is never longer than 200 characters
in the 2nd - it is.
SSIS suppose to import them automatically from a folder - easy and simple, but...
Excel source component decides what data type is used here.
When, using created by me sample file with sample text data, it decides to use DT_WSTR(255) it fails with the second file with the truncation error.
When I force it to use DT_NTEXT (by creating longer text in the sample file) if fails with the 1st file complaining that "Failed to retrieve long data for column"... because the 1st file doesn't contain longer texts...
Has anybody found a solution/work-around for this? I mean - except manually changing the source data?
Any help much appreciated.
We can use Flat File Connection Manager instead of Excel Connection Manager. When we create Flat File Connection Manager we can set data type and length explicitly. To do so first we need to save the excel file as csv file or tab delimited file. Then we can use this file to create Flat File Connection. Drag and drop a Flat File Source in the Data Flow tab. In the Flat File Source Editor dialog box click New button and it will launches Flat File Connection Manager Editor dialog box. In the General tab specify the file full path and click Advanced tab. Then put data type and column width like below image.
Click OK and close the dialog box, this will create our connection manager. Now the connection manager can successfully read the full length data but we have to set the data type & length of the Output Columns so that we can get the data in the output pipeline. To do that right click on the Flat File Source and click Show Advanced Editor option. Then follow the below image instruction.
When we finish we run our package and it run successfully without any truncation error and insert all the data in our target database.
The first few lines of my CSV file look like this (when viewed from Notepad++):
Trace,Original Serial Number,New Serial number
0000073800000000097612345678901234567890,0054,0001
When I open this file in excel, I get this:
For some reason, excel is truncating the serial numbers and the trace number. I have tried changing the format to Text but that still doesn't work, as excel only sees the value up to the 6:
7.38000000000976E+34
If I change it to Number:
73800000000097600000000000000000000.00
What can I do? I only have 60 lines, so if I have to start over and some how recopy the text into excel I will, but I'm afraid saving it will change the format once again.
You shouldn't need to start over or alter the existing CSV. The fastest way might be to use Excel's text import wizard. In the data tab under Get External Data click From Text and select your CSV file.
The wizard that appears will let you tell Excel the data type of each "column" and you can tell it to use text for your barcode.
Excel is trying to "help" you by formatting the input values. To avoid this, do not double-click the file to open it. Instead, open the Data tab and in the Get External Data section, click on From Text
Then tell the Import Wizard that the fields are Text:
One solution that may work for you depending on the environment you consume the csv, you can add a nonnumeric character to the beginning and end (e.g. a "_") of the values. This will force Excel to recognize it as text. You can then remove the "_"s in your downstream environment (SQL, Databricks, etc.) or even keep them if they don't interfere with your reporting.
I'm trying to select multiple values based on a search key. In it's most basic form there is no problem with this. I followed this example and everything went well:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/how-to-look-up-a-value-in-a-list-and-return-multiple-corresponding-values-HA001226038.aspx
=IF(ISERROR(INDEX($A$1:$B$7,SMALL(IF($A$1:$A$7=$A$10,ROW($A$1:$A$7)),ROW(1:1)),2)),"",INDEX($A$1:$B$7,SMALL(IF($A$1:$A$7=$A$10,ROW($A$1:$A$7)),ROW(1:1)),2))
The problem with this however is that in my case I have multiple CSV files (external) where some values in my A$ column look like this:
=- sometext // results into #NAME? error
Excel interprets these as a formulas where it is actually only supposed to be a string. Sure I could change it to text and save it again but I would like to avoid any manipulation in these CSV files.
I tried to extend the second IF statement (if you read it from left to right) with:
IF(AND($A$1:$A$7 <> "#NAME?", $A$1:$A$7=$A$10,ROW($A$1:$A$7)))
and
IF(AND(NOT(ISERROR($A$1:$A$7)), $A$1:$A$7=$A$10,ROW($A$1:$A$7)))
Both didn't work. (Sorry if I messed up some syntax and formula names, I'm using a different language version)
Here a small image of what's happening right now and how it should look:
On the right site you can see a list of values right next to Test1 which are missing on the left site due to the #NAME? error.
I would suggest opening the csv's files as text files. Selecting Comma as your delimiter and then select Text as your Column data format. This way, Excel will treat all your data as text and will not try to read =- sometext as a formula.
To do so, you would need to change your .csv files extension to .txt or anything else (even no file format).
Instead of "Opening" the CSV file, you can "Import" it. This will open the Text Import Wizard which will allow you to specify particular columns as Text. This is located in different areas in different versions of Excel. In Excel 2007, it is on the Data Tab / Get External Data / From Text. The example below demonstrates bringing in long numbers, but it should work just as well with your formula "lookalikes"