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sheetreader

Fast XLSX file importer

Extension repository on GitHub 43 Extension descriptor (YAML) Weekly downloads 🔽 179

Installing and Loading

INSTALL sheetreader FROM community;
LOAD sheetreader;

Example

-- Create table from XLSX file & use default values for parameters
CREATE TABLE data AS FROM sheetreader('data.xlsx');

-- Example usage of available named parameters
CREATE TABLE data2 AS FROM sheetreader(
    'data2.xlsx',
    sheet_index = 1,
    threads = 16,
    skip_rows = 0,
    has_header = true,
    types = [BOOLEAN, VARCHAR],
    coerce_to_string = true,
    force_types = true
);

About sheetreader

About SheetReader

sheetreader is a DuckDB extension that allows reading XLSX files into DuckDB tables with SheetReader, our blazingly fast XLSX parser (https://github.com/polydbms/sheetreader-core).

Usage

Parameters

Name	Description	Type	Default
`sheet_index`	Index of the sheet to read. Starts at 1.	`INTEGER`	`1`
`sheet_name`	Name of the sheet to read. Only either `sheet_index` or `sheet_name` can be set.	`VARCHAR`	`""`
`threads`	Number of threads to use, while parsing	`INTEGER`	Half of available cores; minimum 1
`skip_rows`	Number of rows to skip	`INTEGER`	`0`
`has_header`	Force to treat first row as header row. <ul> <li> If successful, the cell contents are used for column names. </li> <li> If set to `false` (which is the default), the extension will still try to treat the first row as header row. The difference is that it will not fail, if the first row is not usable. </li> </ul>	`BOOLEAN`	`false`
`types`	List of types for all columns <ul> <li> Types currently available: `VARCHAR`,`BOOLEAN`,`DOUBLE`, `DATE`.</li> <li> Useful in combination with `coerce_to_string` and `force_types`. </li> </ul>	`LIST(VARCHAR)`	Uses types determined by first & second row (after skipped rows)
`coerce_to_string`	Coerce all cells in column of type `VARCHAR` to string (i.e. `VARCHAR`).	`BOOLEAN`	`false`
`force_types`	Use `types` even if they are not compatible with types determined by first/second row. Cells, that are not of the column type, are set to `NULL` or coerced to string, if option is set.	`BOOLEAN`	`false`

More Information

SheetReader was published in the Information Systems Journal

@article{DBLP:journals/is/GavriilidisHZM23,
  author       = {Haralampos Gavriilidis and
                  Felix Henze and
                  Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou and
                  Volker Markl},
  title        = {SheetReader: Efficient Specialized Spreadsheet Parsing},
  journal      = {Inf. Syst.},
  volume       = {115},
  pages        = {102183},
  year         = {2023},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2023.102183},
  doi          = {10.1016/J.IS.2023.102183},
  timestamp    = {Mon, 26 Jun 2023 20:54:32 +0200},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/is/GavriilidisHZM23.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

Added Functions

function_name	function_type	description	comment	example
sheetreader	table