Comments on: Read an Excel xlsx with PL/SQL

By: Naseer

Naseer — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:09:58 +0000

Anton thanks a lot for your help. With your help I am able to see the data in the string_val column by replacing pattern from ‘.’ to ‘*/text()’

Thanks again.

By: Naseer

Naseer — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:45:33 +0000

I think in my case this line is causing string_val to be empty.
t_strings( i ) := dbms_xslprocessor.valueof( dbms_xmldom.item( t_nl, i ), ‘.’ );

It looks like patron ‘.’ is incorrect because dbms_xslprocessor.valueof( dbms_xmldom.item( t_nl, i ), ‘.’ ); is returning NULL.

Do you think there is some kind of version issue with XML related packages?

By: Naseer

Naseer — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:49:23 +0000

Query is:
select *
from table( as_read_xlsx.read( as_read_xlsx.file2blob( ‘UPLOAD_DIR’, ‘Spring2013.xlsx’ ) ) )

Query can read file and correctly list all columns except STRING_VAL (I am suing formula)

I will send you .xlsx file in few minutes.

Regards,

By: Anton Scheffer

Anton Scheffer — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:31:39 +0000

You could show me the query you are using or send me the excel you use
scheffer @ “the company I work” .nl

By: Naseer

Naseer — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:23:19 +0000

Thanks for quick reply. My bad I though I gave the necessary info .
In my case whenever the output for column CELL_TYPE is S in these cases STRING_VAL column is blank.
I tried to play with line below but no success.
t_one_cell.string_val := t_strings( to_number( t_val ) );

What info you are looking to suggest any possible reason.

Thanks a lot.

By: Anton Scheffer

Anton Scheffer — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:54:37 +0000

@Naseer.
No, I have no ideas. But it could be that you gave just to little information to work on .

By: Naseer

Naseer — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:17:10 +0000

Hello Anton,

This is great utility. In my case String valuses are not comming up (blank). Number are comming correctly. We are at office 2010 and db is 11.1.0.7.0 – 64bit.

Any Idea?

Thanks,

Naseer – Houston

By: Anton Scheffer

Anton Scheffer — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:43:47 +0000

@tuataneo This blog is called read Excel xlsx for a reason. Of course you can read xls, or every other format you can think of with plsql, but not with the code I provided here.

By: Anton Scheffer

Anton Scheffer — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:40:27 +0000

@regrbde. This code shows the result of every formula I tried, but please show your changes or mail it to me scheffer@…..

By: tuataneo

tuataneo — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:10:55 +0000

Excellent, but when I try *xls file, I cannot read * xls file. How I read *xls file in PL-SQL? is it possible?
Thanks