Hi ppl,
I'm trying to import a fixed lenght text file into a sql 7.0 table using the SQL command "BULK INSERT".
The text file is fixed length and end with a carriage return and linefeed. Fields aren’t delimited.
Wich definition of the "FIELDTERMINATOR" should i use ?
I need some Help here!!!
Thanks.
hi friends ,
Thank you for the help and support you have given me. Now i am confronted with a new problem. I have to import some textfiles to SQL Server Tables . I have to create a tool to automate the porting using C# .The columns in textfile is seperated with pipe"|" . I f any body knows this please help me .
Thanks $ Regards
Nevin
hi friends ,
Thank you for the help and support you have given me. Now i am confronted with a new problem. I have to import some textfiles to SQL Server Tables .The columns in textfile is seperated with pipe"|" . I f any body knows this please help me .
Thanks $ Regards
Nevin
Hello,
I am kind of new to Sql Server 2005.
I figured out how to use the import data wizard to import a delimited text file.
But I need to find a way to import many delimited text files at once.
does anybody know if this can be done in Sql Server 2005? and how?
thanks in advance,
Hi,i wanna develop an web-database application with ASP.NET,C#, SQL server 2000.i already have some data whichs been in text format(text file) and now, i want to import the same into my database.the problem is, the text file has got many line breaks and also its not well formated to import it using DTS.Can any one help me out in importing the same.thanks in advance
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Thanks,
Hemal
I need to extract data from text files (around 200) and import into sql server tables. I tried using SSIS foreach loop container but could not manage it. Can anyone guide me how this can be done?
All help appreciated.
Thanks,
I am learning SQLServer Integration Services.
I created a file People.txt containing firstName, LastName seperated by a pipe.
------------------content-----------
John | Doe
Mike | James
Adam | Smith
-----------------------------------------
and another one called gender.txt
------------------content-----------
M
---------------------------------------
I will would like to create integration services package that compines each record of the first file with the record of the second file and inserts the result into table.
--------------Result table content------------------
John
Doe
M
Mike
James
M
Adam
Smith
M
-----------------------------------------------------------
Thanks
How to import multiple text files (residing in single folder) into SQL Server table? I know how to import single file but not sure how multiple files could be loaded? Pls. guide.
Thanks,
HShah
I need to import data to a MSSql table from massive (read: a million and a half rows, every single day) logs that come in .txt format separated in tabs with a ";" symbol and then have some stored procedures analyze that data to generate some reports in an excel file with that info. The text files include the column headers in the first row and the data starts on the second one.
The challenge is that the text files differ in column order and count every single day.
The analysis that I need to do only needs about 15 columns from the nearly 90-120 that those files include, and those columns sadly happen to be in a different order in those files.
Brief overview...Running SQL Server 2003 Server Enterprise 64 bit - All Service Packs and patches current
SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition 64 bit Build Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.3054.00 (X64) Mar 23 2007 18:41:50 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Enterprise Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 2)
I cannot import any SSIS packages nor crete any new folders under stored packages. I hve googled the news groups and looked at BOL to no avail. HELP!!!!
I have text data files from a third party and they use comma as field delimiters and enclose the text for each column in double-quotes. Not a problem for most of the data files until they start sending files where there is " within the column values. SSIS package fails with the error:
The column delimiter for column "Column 1" was not found.
Any ideas on how to resolve this issue will be greatly appreciated.Thankspcp
Hi gurus,
I've created a linked server (and set up the corresponding schema.ini file) in order to perform bulk-inserts from some CSV text files into SQL tables (from my standpoint the text files are just for reading purposes). The linked server works fine (I can select the data in the files without a problem).
Now the question: is possible to automatically detect when one or more of those files change in order to start the import process automatically? Something like having a trigger created on the CSV files Or there's no easy way to do that so I have, to say something, to create a Job that periodically checks if the files have changed programatically (say, recording each file's timestamp everytime is imported and comparing the recorded value with the current one, or whatever)?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Hi i have a question.
How can i import dump from a text file , to an exsiting database, i´m will not useing DTS, i what to use BULK cmd in sql queryanalyser etc.
Need help
/Fredrik
I have SQL 2000 running under windows 2000 server.
Question:
I'm receving CSV files from the field.
I would like to built SQL database from daily CSV files. I've been doing this manually :( however, is there anyway I can do this task automactically so that once new daily CSV file ~200KB appear in the folder, progarm automatically insert recent file to SQL database...:) Do I need to write VB progarm for this? Please help...
I have created a stored procedure to handle xml data.
One of the inputs to this procedure is xmldata which is basically the contents of the xml in a file.
Now I would like to create a SSIS package that takes the xml files from the network and uses this SP.
Should I have a file system task inside a for loop container?
How do I get started on this please?
Thanks
I have created a stored procedure to handle xml data.
One of the inputs to this procedure is xmldata which is basically the contents of the xml in a file.
Now I would like to create a SSIS package that takes the xml files from the network and uses this SP.
Should I have a file system task inside a for loop container?
How do I get started on this please?
Thanks
Hi,
I have about 300-400 XML files I want to load in my SQL database (2005). The following code will load one (1) file. How do i do a mulitple collections?
INSERT INTO MEL (DATA) SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET (BULK'C:TempCHAPTER1.xml', SINGLE_BLOB) AS TEMP Thanks,
Dear all,
I'm new to SQL server. I would like to ask how to do the following. Now I have many CSV files in a directory, which are uploaded through ftp from my client computers daily. How can I automatically import those CSV files to the SQL server? Can I do it by a script or a stored procedure or something else?
Your help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Roland Lee
I have data in excel files I want to import it to existing SQL Server database. I can use SQL Server built in import tool but before Importing, the data needs to be validated. What is the best way to do this?
Thanks
I have 8GB of text files which are basically log files from the past few years.
There is 24 text files per directory which are labeled for every day (so they are not all in 1 folder).
It would make reading them much easier if I could import them to SQL but I only seem to be able to import 1 at a time? (with the wizards :eek: )
Surely there is a way to mass import without all the costly applications that google searches give me?
cheers :P
I have a job that calls about 5 DTS's. Each DTS imports a text file. The problem is that some of the files may not be there every day. How do I exit the DTS without an error if the file does not exist, but I want my job to keep running...
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a script which imports the contents of a csv file from our CRM system and updates a table in my database. This works OK but the problems I have are that a) sometimes there is more than one file in the folder, and b) that I wish to move any csv files that have been imported into an archive folder. The csv files arrive with a time/datestamp and I currently rename them manually to FREXPORT before importing (the name is in the format FREXPORT_20141101_1217.csv).How do I:
1) get it to process the file without me having to manually rename the file(s) each time,
2) if there is more than 1 file in the folder process all the files and 3)move the correctly processed files to an archive folder which is: importarchive?
Ultimately, I would like the script to be run as a scheduled job, so it also has to deal with the fact that sometimes there will be no files to import too.
[code]create table #import
(worknumber nvarchar(12), date_done smalldatetime)
BULK
Insert #import
from 'fork04-hq-dc01dataimportFREXPORT.csv'
[code]....
I have several hundred .csv files that have a specific cell that I need to get into a SQL table.
These files are named after the date on which they were created...ie 8252005 would be todays date.
Im looking for a way to import this cell to SQL... the same cell in each file....
Thanks for any help
I have a task to import *.log files in to the Microsoft SQL Server and need help in this regards.
This import should be the best table structure/format for the web log (considerations for import time, size, indexing, querying, reporting, etc.), and best utilize all available space on the server
Naveen
I'd like to set up a dts package to import .csv files and on testing one .csv with only one row I am getting this error:
Error Source: Microsoft Data Transformation Services Flat File Rowset Provider
Error Description: Too many columns found in the current row; non-whitespace characters were found after the last defined column's data.
data set from .csv:
-31,0,"CENTER","","","64 ROCK DR. #4100","BETH","MD.","20417","0470-5",30109,10598,"52492000 083","1018","406800","6896CE","7007","G00887",1,13983.24,2139.66,42741.9,150101.36,830317.41,1562843.99,30128.45,2,506,0,0,0,0,0,0,37.87,1,0,0,476.39,472.15,0,1191.12,0,90073.46,43038.97,0,309926.59,-14880.49,20060102,20090101,"A","","",""," ","C62454",0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,8.39,0,0,0,0,"",0,"00000000",""
hi all
i using SSIS to import flat files and i need support
how can i import flat file from folder inculed many files and when finish start to next and next .....
if can i select from flat files to add condition
like Select * from.....where ......
thanks
Hello
i'm trying to find out if SSIS is a right toolbox for importing of many SPSS-files into the large market research data warehouse.
A simplified version of SPSS-datasheet looks like this:
- many columns (up to 3000). some of them are interview attributes (InterviewID, Date, etc.) and variables, representing survey questions
- relative few rows with "cases" or "interviews"
- in cells there are answers to the questions (in columns) by respondent (in rows)
As first step i would like to unpivot the dataset in the following way:
- Pass-Through: all interview attributes, that shouldn't be unpivoted
- Input Columns: rest 2990 columns
- Destination Column: Question
- Pivot Key Value Column Name: Answer
It works allright, except that i has to manually define destination column for all 2990 input columns, which takes a lot of time (multiplied by the number of SPSS-files i want to import). Is there a way to automate this (default value for destination column and/or scripting?)
Many thanks for your help!
Does anyone have a completed script that will import Perfmon logs from csv format into an existing database that follows the SQL Log File Schema EG; CounterData, CounterDetails, DisplayToID tables accurately. I don't know enough T-SQL to get it right. Thanks for any input you may have.
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I'm just starting with SQL and BIDS. I have created a xml-Import to SQL Server which works without any problem.
Now I like to import (daily) all xml-files of an appropriate Folder at once to the DB. The files will have different names each day.
I could not find any help in the internet to solve this problem.
Can someone give me an Idea how to import many xml-files out of the same folder to SQL?
Thanks & regards
Chaepp
Hi There,
I have a requirement to import a large number of csv files to one table. The files are in the format NAME.date.csv. What is the best way to do this?
Cheers
Pete
Hi,
I try to import csv files to Sql Server using .net. The code is as following:
string strCsvConn = @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=;Extended Properties='text;HDR=Yes;FMT=Delimited(,)';";
using (OleDbConnection cn = new OleDbConnection(strCsvConn))
{
string strSQL = "SELECT * FROM " + strFileName;
OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand(strSQL, cn);
cn.Open();using (OleDbDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader())
{
// Bulk Copy to SQL Server
using (SqlBulkCopy bulkCopy = new SqlBulkCopy(strSqlConn))
{
bulkCopy.DestinationTableName = strSqlTable;
bulkCopy.WriteToServer(dr);
}
}
}
And the data is as following (simplified):
Model,Serial
AFICIO 3045,K9464900965
AFICIO 3045,K9464900932
Fax 5510L,A3761290041
Fax 2210L,A4978800008
AFICIO 3025,K8565201014
AFICIO 3025,K8565102398
The result of the 2nd column is: 9464900965, 9464900932, null, null, 8565201014, 8565102398 - either the first character is missing or the whole entry is missing.
One more weird thing is that some other files work fine, though I am not able to tell any difference between them.
Any idea is hoghly appreciated.
shz
Hi,
I have about 500 CSV files, mostly they are unser same structure. I need to import them all into SQL server. I create a new table for each one based on the firstline as the column name. I can do them one by one but it is very time consuming and boring. Is there a fast way of doing this?
If someone give me a information, I promise to share all of MY CSV files. They are the zone chart from UPS and I have edit all of them.
Thanks.