Hello everyone,

I am new to working with Data beyond the basics, and have recently been placed in a position to start learning new ways to simplify workflow, and was pointed to the FME system to see what it can do. What I need is to populate an existing (empty rows) SQL database with data given by a client concerning their property assets in an .xlsx Excel spreadsheet, while being able to query and change the formatting of certain columns during the 'translation' process, instead of manually trying the built in import tool in SQL Server and then using a separate script file to individually query the desired column data.

For example, I need the data in the AcquisitionMethod column from the spreadsheet copied to the SQL DB under acquisition_method while being queried by the script below, while other Columns need no scripting, just copying, and this all at once, if possible;

case when [AcquisitionMethod] = 'Donation' then 'DONATION'
when [AcquisitionMethod] = 'Purchase' then 'PURCHASE'
when [AcquisitionMethod] = 'Transfer' then 'TRANSFER'
else null end as acquisition_method

Should there be any other better and simpler ways to do this I am all ears, as I am totally new to the world of Data Manipulation.

Thanks in advance,

R.