v1.0.0 – First public release
Initial public release of Excel To SQL Import.
This version includes a working VB6 desktop tool for importing Excel data into SQL Server tables with a safer staged workflow.
Included in this release
- SQL Server connection
- Windows Authentication
- SQL Server Authentication
- Non-system database browsing
- Base table browsing
- Database and table search
- Excel loading with:
- ADO/OLEDB
- Excel Automation
- Excel header loading
- Excel preview rows
- Manual column mapping
- Auto Match
- Save / Load mapping
- Required mapping validation
- Duplicate SQL-field mapping prevention
- Staging-table based import
- Final import into target table
- Transaction support
- Commit / Rollback handling
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- Progress and status tracking
- Log file generation
- Improved friendly error handling
- Cancel during import
- Optional saving of last connection settings
Notes
This is the first public release and is intended as a practical, working version for controlled/internal usage and further community improvement.
Known direction for future improvements
- richer final import summary
- separate row-level error log
- save more user preferences
- optional keep-staging-table mode
- additional UX improvements