re: Writing huge data to excel

2014-07-01 Thread Jeff Garza
You really ought to be looking outside of CF for transfers of large datasets, especially into Excel. Have you tried using SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) for this? It's really not that difficult to do and it'll handle millions of rows easily... -- Jeff Original Message

Re: Writing huge data to excel

2014-07-01 Thread Jon Clausen
I’ve actually become quite fond of CF's Spreadsheet functions, though I prefer to use the script versions as I find them more flexible when dealing with large datasets, formatting content for reports and working with multiple sheets:

Re: Writing huge data to excel

2014-07-01 Thread funand learning
Thank you. I am not using SpreadSheetWrite function to write to a file. I am storing all the sheets in a variable and using cfheader and cfcontent to prompt the user to save or download. Do you think this is a preferred option? On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Jon Clausen

Re: Writing huge data to excel

2014-07-01 Thread Jon Clausen
That’s really your call. The way you’re doing it is the “old-school” method and used to be the standard for spreadsheet delivery. With CF9+, I find working directly with the spreadsheet object allows me to avoid jumping through a bunch of hoops to sanitize the cell input - especially