Import A Text File Into A SQL Server Express (C# Code)
Sep 7, 2007I'm trying to read a text and load the data from the text file and import the data into the database.
please help!!
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How To Import A Text Database File Into SQL Server Management Studio Express
Aug 21, 2007I have a text file with a bunch of zip codes: 99546,"AK","Adak",162.70,55.20,.0099551,"AK","Akiachak",161.39,60.89,.0099552,"AK","Akiak",161.19,60.89,.0099553,"AK","Akutan",165.78,54.14,.00................... I want to import this in Sql Server Express. Is it possible to do this using Management Studio Express? If not, does anyone know a script that would import the data?
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Jun 18, 2007I didn't find any option of IMPORT to import a TEXT FILE in sql express 2005.
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Mar 7, 2008hi guys
i need to import text file to sql table in sql server 2005 ...using query how do i import text file to sql table .......................
i need query
i dont want go Import/export options
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Aug 10, 2004Hello,
Is there a way to import data from a text file with DELPHI toward a SQL Server table.
I heard about BCP ...?
Does someone know?
THANKS.
SSIS Import Text File To SQL Server With Nulls?
Jan 23, 2007I have a text file I am trying to import into SQL Server using OLEDB connection.
It's a fixed field text file, ragged right format. One of my columns maps to a numeric column in the DB. In some spots in the file, it is blank, in others there is actual numeric data.
I can't get it to import. If I set the text file column to numeric, I get an error "That value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data." If I set the text file column to string, I get a similar error from the OLE DB provider, "Invalid character value for cast specification"
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Import Text File Source Into SQL Server Destination
Dec 11, 2007
Hi all,
I got a unicode file source with this fields:
-DT_WSTR (100) originally is DT_STR(100)
-DT_WSTR (100) originally is DT_STR(100)
-DT_NTEXT
-DT_WSTR (20) originally is DT_DBTIMESTAMP
-DT_WSTR (5) originally is DT_BOOLEAN
I export a Query result to a File (see above) ...as unicode TXT destination.
OK, now I must to re-import into another DB and here is my difficult...'cause the DT_NTEXT is HTML code and I got always this error:
[Flat File Source [1050]] Error: The column delimiter for column "scheda" was not found.
Scheda field is the DT_NTEXT.
Into connection manager area I modify the advanced tab for the set-up of my fields setting all to:
Unicode string [DT_WSTR] with a variable of the len, but Try also to define everyone to the rigth type of the SQL destination like:
- DT_STR(100)
- DT_STR(100)
- DT_DTNTEXT
- DT_DBTIMESTAMP
- DT_BOOLEAN
In every type of action I see no message alert and all seem to be good, but when I try to execute got always same error...
So hope someone can help me...
-----------
here first line of my UNICODE TXT source file
----------
"codven" "manufacturer" "scheda" "last_modified" "modificata"
"CDGI2120" "Altri" "<datasheet><section ncellmax="1" id="1"><row order="1"><cell><![CDATA[Combat possiede mitragliatrici per intraprendere battaglie testa a ~testa del genere "spara o sei finito" in mezzo a territori ~butterati di crateri su carri armati del 23esimo secolo.~Caratteristiche:~* Cinque modalita' di gioco~* Tre tipi di carri armati~* Partita singola o in multiplayer~* Grafica in 2D, 3D]]></cell></row></section></datasheet>" "2007-12-11 13:02:26.290000000" "1"
"CDGI2586" "Disney Interactive" "<datasheet><section ncellmax="1" id="1"><row order="1"><cell><![CDATA[Entra con Tigro ed i suoi amici nel meraviglioso Bosco dei 100 Acri aiutalo a cercare il miele nella natura incantata di questo fantastico mondo! ~~Il giocatore vestirÓ i panni di Tigro, il simpatico e buffo amico di Winnie The Pooh, il quale dovrÓ raccogliere quanto pi¨ miele possibile, per rendere la festa di Winnie qualcosa di veramente speciale!!!]]></cell></row></section></datasheet>" "2007-12-11 13:02:26.290000000" "1"
SQL Server 2008 :: Import Of Excel Or Text File Into Database
Sep 11, 2015I have an .xlsx file where I need to import the data into a table. If there is not a way to do this, is there a way to import either a tab del file or different type of .csv file into the database?
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Import Human-Readable Text File Into SQL Server 2000
Jul 20, 2005Hello,I am receiving a text file that is produced from a mainframe that isout of my control. I am attempting to find a (hopefully clean) way toimport it into a SQL Server database in an automated fashion. I amnot really concerned about how many tables it requires or what theschema looks like as long as the data remains related and ends up inits respective fields (I will probably use scratch tables for this).The data is given to me in a format that is meant to be printed outand read by human eyes (in a text file). The format looks somethinglike this:Begin File:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------1234 1234 1234 1234 XYZ Company 01/01/2003.......More stuff related to XYZ company for a couple of lines ..............(this stuff can easily be parsed by position).......MCARD VISA AMEX DISC-------------------------------------------------------------------------------TOTAL 11111.11 4444.44 5555.55 30.01TRANS FEE .20 .20 .15 .15TRANS AMOUNT 2222.22 888.89 833.33 4.50DISC .0165 .0165 .0365 .0355-------------------------------------------------------------------------------ANOTHER HEADER............More stuff related to XYZ Company................End File:Well, this isn't the exact format, but just an example. The point isthat all of the data in each column is related and should end up inthe same record which is related to the parent record of XYZ Company(or all in a single record in a single table if that is the closest Ican get).Also, the rows are not always present. For example, if TRANS FEEdoesn't apply to anything in the row, then the entire row willcollapse and TRANS AMOUNT would be the next line after TOTAL.I was looking at the bcp utility and dts, but dts doesn't seem to havethe performance capabilities (or reliability for that matter) I amlooking for. Bcp seems like it might work if there is some advancedformatting commands that I can't find in the documentation - Anyone?The best I can come up with is to use a high level language such as C#or VB.NET to parse the text file into another text file that is commadelimited, and then use the bcp utility (or bulk insert) to import itinto SQL Server where I can then use TSQL to manipulate it how I want.I am trying to eliminate the high level language parse and just gostraight from file to database. Does anybody know an easier route?TIA
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Apr 18, 2008
what is the best way to import fixed length text file to sql server using SSIS?
I was trying to using text file source and ole db destination..but since the text file has no columns and have different length per column and per line( it show only one column becasue it all concatnated), I can not map it to destination column..
How can I import it?
Here is the example of text file ( fixed with row delimeter)that i need to import to different columns...
010000000000000000001164.00023 YV
02004101 1 2008-04-OLL 43456 0000000001 2008-04-08
030000100000000000000000000007.00
047890 7556 YYU 779
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Aug 17, 2007HiI had to recover my computer but before I did that I grabbed a new version of my mdf file but I don't know how to actually import it into SQL Server Management Studio Express evertime I try to open the file up it just crashes. I rather not have to redue that whole database again. I am a noob so step by step instructions are needed. Thanks
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Oct 2, 2006I have a table in a database has the same filed with a text file:
RBW_AR_BOT_REC
Size
Comment
Justification
Padding
record_id
1
'R'
None
None
date
6
MMDDYY
None
None
time
4
HHMM
(24 hour time)
None
None
cust_num
8
1
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odometer
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0
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8
1
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exception_customer
1
'0' = No
'1' = Yes
None
None
valid_void
1
'0' = valid
'v' = void
None
None
Justification
Padding
None
None
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None
None
None
None
Right
Zero
Right
Zero
Right
Zero
None
None
None
None
Justification
Padding
None
None
None
None
None
None
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Zero
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Zero
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Apr 10, 2008I'm experienced using queries to extract data, but I'm new to actually creating tables, except through Access. I work with many records of data, so populating the data by hand is not an option. I created a test database (ValTest) and a test table within that database (ClaimTest). I created a text file (DataTest.txt) with the same layout as I defined for ClaimTest. I want to populate ClaimTest with the data from DataTest.txt. I was told the only way to do that using SQL Server Express was to use a utility called BCP. So I found a page on the Microsoft website talking about BCP. It gave some examples, so I opended up the Command Line window, pointed to the directory that contains the database and text file and typed "BCP ValTest.ClaimTest in DataTest.txt -T -c". I get 3 errors: Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [2], Login timeout expired, and An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.
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Apr 17, 2000SQLServer 7.0
Hi,
I have a small project on that involves importing a series of csv files held within an ftp directory into our Datawarehouse. Every day a series of csv files will be added to the directory. These will be named something like:
Audit1.csv,Audit2.csv etc.
I would like to automate this process as this can involve up to 400 files at a time. The proecedure would need to identify a valid file, import it into the database, delete the file and then move onto the next one.
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Thanks
Rob
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Thanks,
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Using SP2 on SQL Server 2000.
Import Text File
Sep 14, 2004Is it possible to handle text files i MS SQL 2000 in which fields contains single quotations and also are terminated by a single quotation
Like this:
1,2,'John's',1,2
John's contain a single quotation
Or is possible to rewrite file using MS SQL to use double quotation
Like this;
1,2,"John's",1,2
Hope that someone can help me out here, and doing it using MS SQL
At the time, I'm handlig it using MySql, but I would prefer using MS SQL
Regards
Carsten H.
DTS Import From A Text File
Jul 15, 2002Hi All,
I'm having a problem in importing an Excel file into SQL server 2000.Here is the scenario with my data.
One of the column has got the mixed data which is putting null's in the SQL server table in some rows.I found in the MSFT Technet that it is a bug in SQL server 7.0/2000.The workaround for it ( according to MSFT ) is to get the data into text file and import into SQL server.
Now the question is , my data contains some currency fields and numeric fields in addition to the char and date fields. When I'm importing the table using DTS wizard , it is failing. I'm trying to use conversion functions like cdate and clng etc . Still the DTS is failing.
What I noticed is when I try to import into a table with data type varchar for all columns, it is working fine.But the data is of no use.
I would appreciate if any one can help me out in solving this problem.
Thanks,
Sammy.
Text File Import
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IMPORT TEXT FILE
Mar 26, 2007All,
What will be the painless way to import large fixed field text file that has more than 260 columns in sql table using dts pkg?
Suggestions?
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In a previous job I used Perl for thing like this and the structure would be as follows:
For Each File:
1. Get filename and timestamp
2. Query db table with list of already imported filenames and timestamp. If Filename not in the table or is in table with older date return 1 to import or if file already imported return 0
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Sep 26, 2007Hello Everyone and thanks for your help in advance. I am having a problem importing a text file into SQL Server 2005 and can't figure out where the issue is. The file is in CSV format with the text delimiter field as a ". When attempting to import the field into a SQL Server 2005 table, the import fails due to numerous truncation errors. I have tried importing into an existing table, but have also tried importing and allowing the import to create the table. I receive the same failures in both cases. For whatever reason, when allowing the import to create the table, each column is created as a nvarchar(50) even thought the column sizes vary widely. Oddly enough, when importing into a SQL Server 2000 table with the correct layout, the file imports perfectly fine, thus verifying there is nothing wrong with the data source. It also creates the table with appropriate column sizes in SQL 2000. I'm really at a loss as to what is going on. Any assistance woul dbe greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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May 28, 2002This is what I am going to do:
Everyday, there are users FTP the text files to a directory in the server. During the night, a job will be run to import these text files to a table.
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Import From Text File Into Two Tables
Jul 16, 2002Quick Question!
If you have both invoice header lines and invoice detail lines in a comma delimited file, how can I get the data in the file to be imported into two different tables. I can produce a text file eg:
1,20,10/03/2002,39 High Street Any Town,,
2,20,Fluffy Slippers,2,Red,10.99
2,20,Pyjamas,3,Black,15.99
2,20,Trousers,1,Lilac,24.99
1,21,10/03/2002,11 Gibson Close,
2,21,Sandles,1,Black,12.99
2,21,Shoes,4,Blue,23.99
1,22,13/03/2002,45 Mill Street,
2,22,Womble Feet,4,White,16.99
2,22,Glass Slipper,1,Transparent,23.99
Lines with 1 in the first column should go in the InvoiceHeader table
Lines with 2 in the first column should go in the InvoiceDetails table.
I have tried with DTS but to no avial - ActiveX scrips in the Transform Data Task can only seem to access one data destination - it one table not two.
Any Ideas?
Julia
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Oct 21, 2007dear all,
I have a text file that contains data that i need to insert into sql server... the file size is about 800 MB .. and contains about 17,000,000 lines ..
some one told me that there is a way in sql server to import this data automatically by writting some scripts ...
the file looks like this
xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
yyyy .. yyyyy "I Need only These fields (the Ys).. I don't care about the rest of the file"
yyyy .. yyyyy
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
any help is really appriciated