You’d be able to read the document attributes as if it was a built-in table and the contents of the paragraphs as if it were another. You’d have thought that all one has to do is to indicate which table in the document you want to populate, and send it the result of the SQL.
#EASY DOC MERGE BY MY WAY DRIVERS#
For a start, I was puzzled by the lack of ODBC drivers for Word. Nevertheless, I quickly realized that there were plenty of obstacles in my way. If Microsoft fail to do something properly with a product, one gets quasi-religious pronouncements from everywhere that it is not appropriate to use the product in this way, or it traduces one’s architectural design, or it should be done in C #. I always smell humbug when I hear this sort of talk. There are reams of advice on why it was a very bad idea to do such a thing as read data from Word documents into SQL, and plenty of indignation at the idea of writing to Word. Robyn backed away nervously at this point, to leave me full rein. After all, from the data viewpoint, MS Word documents are just a series of paragraphs and tables aren’t they? Surely, it should be easy to read and write data between SQL Server and Word. Having helped Robyn with her Excel Workbench, I couldn’t get out of my head the idea of achieving the same effect with MS Word. Writing to Word from SQL Server - Simple Talk Skip to content
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