Good Morning,
We are moving our Oracle DBS to a MS SQL Solution so we will only need to support one DBS Solution. Currently we have some .csv files stored on File Shares that the Oracle use as External Tables. My question is with SQL Server 2016 would we still need to use .csv files as an external table or can we use xlsx? Also is there a better solution with SQL Server than an external table. I have thought of using SSIS Packages to import the data. However, this data needs to be updated live from the .csv or .xlsx file when a user makes a change. So doing it on schedule would not really work in this case, unless SSIS supports triggers when the file changes. Any and all help/suggestions would be great!!
I have also considered using PowerApps to allow the users to update the Table directly instead of using a external table.