How To Convert SQL Server Table To CSV File Format?
May 30, 2008
i have 12 different sql server tables. all are binded to one gridview. i have kept one admin user to view the details of the 12 tables in a gridview (pagesize=5). now the admin wants to generate 12 CSV files from the 12 tables (that is, he has to choose the table name from a dropdown and then has to click "Generate" button. CSV file name should be like this "<table_name>_<date>" ). also want to put links(dynamically [after generation of those csv files]) in a separate page to download those csv files. how to do this in asp.net (C#)? its urgent.
I am stuck at one place, where I have to convert CSV format file data into SAP IDOC format file. In SSIS we don't have any such SAP adapter (though we have .NET Data Provider for mySAP suite [SSIS SAP Adapter] but this is still not fully supported by Microsoft, plus it doesn't have feature to convert data into IDOC format) that can do this. Can someone here please provide me some pointers on any third party adapters available in market to do this job or if anyone has already developed some custom approach to achieve this task?
Your quick response on this is highly appreciated.
The data file contains the answers given to questions asked during the course of an interview. This file contains data only for completed interviews. The file is ASCII based, and contains data in a card column format. This means that each record is spread over several rows in the file €“ called cards. Currently 39 cards make up one completed record, although this may change over time. There are 80 columns per row.
Hi, How can I convert a text file (.txt) into SQL in ASP.net 2.0 ? The sample of the file format is like that ... 09/03/2007 08:41 "Fung, Kitty" Granted Access D1 Main 2354 111 09/03/2007 08:42 "Ng, Jaclyn" Granted Access D1 Main 21906 18 09/03/2007 08:42 "Leung, Agnes" Granted Access D1 Main 21920 18 Cheers
I need to convert a SQL table or SQL table data to XML format. I tried using the Import Export Wizard in SQL 2005 (used SQLXMLOLEDB and SQLXMLOLEDB 4.0 as the source). However, it didn't work. Any way you know how I can convert and obtain data in XML format?
I need to open and read a text file using C#. Once I have read all of the values from the text file, I will need to insert some of those values into a SQL Server database table. One of the values read from the text file will be a date in the format YearMonthDay. For example: 20070601 So my problem is that I don't know how to convert this date into the date format that is expected for a SQL server datetime value. Can someone help me out. How do I do this?
Using SQL Server 2005, I have set up a database for a school to provide timetables for students, teachers etc. The data is currently displayed in this form:
DAY LESSON YR SUBJ GRP STAFF ROOM Mon 1 7 PE T Da Gym Mon 2 7 PE T Da Gym Mon 3 7 Ma A Pr 5 Mon 4 7 Ma A Pr 5 Mon 5 7 Ma A Pr 5 Mon 6 7 Dr T Fn 36 Mon 7 7 Dr T Fn 36 Mon 8 7 En T Bn 21 Mon 9 7 En T Bn 21 Tue 1 7 De T Df 27 Tue 2 7 De T Df 27
etc.
I would like to display this as timetable with DAYS as row headings and LESSON numbers as column headings, with the remaining column info. in the above table combined into one value:
1 2 3 4 etc
MON (7 PE T Da Gym) (7 PE T Da Gym) (7 Ma A Pr 5) (7 Ma A Pr 5) TUE (7 De T Df 27) (7 De T Df 27) etc. WED THU FRI Should I be doing this with PIVOT (scares the life out of me ...) or is there some other solution? Many thanks.
I have several bcp output files I need to import into tables. I do not have format files for them. As far as I know they are in native format. I do not know the layout of the destination table they would populate.
1) how can I determine from the bcp file itself the schema of the destination table? Once I know that I should be able to import the data into the table.
E.g, i have a store procedure. The start date is long date (4/15/2007 3:00pm). i want to select the start date with a particular date (short date format 4/15/2006). Thanks in advance.
I have a table that has a DATE field named. AccountingDate that is in the format YYYY-MM-DD. It's not a VARCHAR field. I simply want to convert this date field into the format MM/DD/YYYY and call it New_Accounting_Date.
I've played with various combinations of CAST & CONVERT but haven't been able to get it to work.
Below is my latest effort which returns the error:
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'as'
What code would work to return a MM/DD/YYYY value for New_Accounting_Date?
Select GLBATCH.AccountingDate, convert(GLBATCH.AccountingDate as date),101) AS New_Accounting_Date from GLBATCH
Hello There, I would really appreciate if you can help me with this problem. I am currently using SQL Server 2005 Express for one of my web application. I have a .bak file (backup file) provided by my client which I want to use for testing purpose. Now I just want to know how can I use that backup file without installing SQL SERVER 2005 as one way to do this I know is to restore the database in SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Manager but I can't install SQL Server 2005. To my knowledge, SQL Server Express uses .mdf file for database but what I have is .BAK file.. I would be really glad to see your quick answers. Thank you for reading this far. Sincerely, Zulfiqar
The IT shop I work in installed MS-SQL Server last week for the solepurpose of converting a large MS-SQL Server database to a format thatInformix (our main database engine) can read. MSSQL Server installedperfectly, I can view/manipulate the little "Northwind" sampledatabase, back it up to a file, restore it (Microsoft Tape Format) justfine. But... The MSSQL Server "backup" file they sent me that I needto restore is in a format that I'm unfamiliar with. It is a large*.sqb file and when I try to restore (using Enterprise Manager - Rightclick on "empty" database, choose All Tasks, Restore Database - FromDevice, Point to File - I get the message: File is not a validMicrosoft Tape Format backup set.Looking at my little Northwind backup file in a hex editor I see thecharacters "TAPE" as the first 4 characters of the file. Looking atthe file that I'm unsuccessfully trying to restore in a hex editor Isee "SSBE". It's not in the standard "Microsoft Tape Format"apparently, but does anyone have any clue what might have created thisbackup file? I hope it's not some weird proprietary program! Anyhelp appreciated, thanks...Joe
Is there any way that we import EBCDIC data directly to MSSQL? Don€™t find any option with BCP or DTS to do the same. EBCIDIC file format control file for oracle is well defined and works for ORACLE bulk loader.
what's the easiest way to do this. i have 5 tables within the mdb filei tried the "easiest way" shown in a website but it does not work.the way i did it was on access(2007) > database tools tab > sql server buttonit gave me an error when it ask for an login IDi do not have any password/id..please helpthanks
I am posting this information simply as an FYI. This is in reference to the MS-SQL command "CONVERT"
I spent over 2 hours :rolleyes: screwing around trying to find out different ways of formatting dates from MS-SQL into something that makes sense for what I needed. I googled everything I could think of and found multiple references that said the info is available on MSDN.. but I could not find it. What I did find were thousands of relatively useless references to "format codes" for converting dates, but with no references to what the different format codes would ultimately yield, or what format codes were available to use.
What I ended up doing was writing a small script to generate a list of all of the variations I could find.
Below is the script, and the output that it yielded. Now, before I get bombarded with "there is a better way" I know there probably is. But this is the way that I needed to do it this particular time. If there are technical errors in my explanation, anyone is welcome to correct them. But after 2 hours of messing with this for what should have been a super simple single .0009 second command, I am just irritated beyond belief that it had to be this complicated to find any useful information on the subject. That is why I am creating this. Hopefully it helps someone else.
The format for the MS SQL CONVERT command is :
CONVERT( length_of_output, date, format_code )
length_of_output : is exactly that . the number of characters that you want returned as your result. If you use a length of 6 you will only see the first 6 characters that are returned. I found the longest valid length to be 28 characters, but I went as high as 128 just for giggles and to see if it revealed any secrets.
date : is a valid date, I used directly the getdate() function
format_code : well.. that's the tricky part. See below.
What I did was ran a script that originally went from 1 to 20,000. It crashed at 15. Apparently the format codes are not totally sequential. So I put in an on error resume next.
What I found is that : 1) the codes are not uninterrupted sequential numbers. 2) the code output repeats every 255 3) negative numbers can be used, but its pointless. 4) useful valid codes are in the ranges of : 0-14, 20-25, 100-114, 120, 121, 126, 130 and 131 5) 0-25 typically represent "short dates" with the year being only 2 digits, but there are exceptions 6) 100 and above always returned a 4 digit year. the exception was 130 and 131, I don't know what it was trying to do.
Here is the script i ran
<% on error resume next
for iintCounter = 0 to 256 SQL = "SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), " & iintCounter & " ) as TheDate" Set rsTheDateFormat = TheDatabase.Execute(SQL)
I have this stored procedure, and im trying to figured out how i can convert the date field into something i can actually sort in the right order in reporting services. Such as mm-dd-yy , whats the SQL code for doing that?
I have a column of integer data type that contains a millisecond data(for example 54013). I want to convert this value to the corresponding "hh:mm:ss" format. Can anybody help me with this issue?
I have three differents sub-reports, each one inside a table object.
Each table has a property "page break-before" enable.
When I execute the view-report in HTML 4.0 format, the reports are executed with success, but when I export to PDF format, the property "page break-before" inserts a blank page at the end of each sub-report. How can I do to suppress the blank-pages when exporting to PDF format ??
We have one table where we store all documents in one of the column called "Doc" with varbinary(max) data type.
We want to download those documents from sql table to windows explorer and i wrote BCP in sql 2005. And things were fine.
The format file I used there looks like this,
9.0 1 1 SQLBINARY 0 0 "" 1 Doc ""
Now we are in 2014 and when I try the same code with same format file, it hangs in the middle. So I changed the file to 12.0 instead of 9.0 but still not working.
I have to perform a bulk Import on a regular Basis and have created a script to do this. The Problem is that the .csv file has 12 Columns and the table to Import into has 14. To Workaround this discrepancy I have decided to use a Format file. The Problem is that how to create one.
,convert(varchar,getdate(),101) as [CONFIRMATION_DATE!1!REPORT_DATE] The above displays as 8/26/2006, anyway you can convert that to a long format in the SP? I.E. August 26, 2006 Thanks.
