Oh, I now see your dilemma. That's fairly complex functionality.
My only idea is this 3rd party product that can open an excel file from a
memory stream and will allow you to extract data from it:
http://www.SteveOrr.net/Reviews/AsposeWord.aspx
http://www.aspose.com/Products/Aspose.Excel/

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I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://SteveOrr.net


"no one" <noone@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the link, but this is not what I want to do. I want to put the
> data from the file into a table, not the file itself.
>
> "Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]" wrote:
>
>> Yes you can upload any file directly into SQL Server.
>> Here's an example:
>> http://SteveOrr.net/Articles/EasyUploads.aspx
>>
>> --
>> I hope this helps,
>> Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
>> http://SteveOrr.net
>>
>> "no one" <noone@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:41FEF4E4.7EED35A4@yahoo.com...
>> >I need to find a way to upload an Excel file into an MS SQL database
>> > using a web control front end. I have my ASP.Net control (using C#)
>> > uploading a file to a directory, but the server people now tell me that
>> > I cannot have a writeable area for the web and have a DTS see it as
>> > this
>> > is too much of a security risk. So, I need a way to read the file
>> > directly into the database. I've no idea how to do this. Does anyone
>> > have ideas? I know loading MS Office into the web server is out of the
>> > question. The webserver and database server are not the same physical
>> > machine.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>