Hi all,
I need advice on how to get data from xml file into the preexisting table. Right now I have a process that scrapes data from the website and generates xml file everyday. I need to get this data into sql table every night and I would like to make this automated process. What do I need to use in sql to accomplish this? It would be great if you can point me to a tutorial or give me few pointers.
Thanks!
Hi all,
Hopefully I am posting this question in the correct forum. I am still learning about SQL 2005. Here is my issue. I have an access db that I archive weekly into and SQL server table. I have used the dst wizard to create an import job and initally that worked fine. field I have as the primary key in the access db cannot be the primary key in the sql table since I archive weekly and that primary key field will be imported several time over. I overcame this initally by not having a primary key in the sql table. This table is strictly for reference. However, now I need to setup a unique field for each of the records in the sql table. What I have done so far is create a recordID field in the sql table that is an int and set as yes to Identify (auotnumber). That worked great and created unique id for all existing records. The problem now is on the import. When I try to import the access table i am getting an error because of the extra field in the sql table, and the error is saying cannot import null value into this field. So... my final question is how can I import the access table into the sql table with one extra field which is the autonumber unique field? Thanks a bunch for any asistance.
Bill
I hope this is the right forum for my question.
I'm developing a website for a Prepaid Calling Cards distributor. Each of the cards they sale have a list of the countries the card is good for. I need to import this data into my countries_rates table. The file they are giving me is an excel file that contain 3 colums (fields)
1- Country-Name
2- Rate
3- Card_$_Price
these files contain aproximaly 400 rows so it will be a hasle to have to insert it manually every week.
In my web application I need to create a form where the user will select the card from a dropdownlist and then find the excel file to be imported for that card.
I would like to know how do I do that with Visual Studio 2005, SLQ 2005 and C#
please direct me to some links where I can learn how to do this or please send me some code snips I can see how is done.
Tia
Charles
I've tried to import a text file into a table using the Import/export wizard.
My problem starts with some columns that should have NULL values (i.e. zero-length string) but the wizard doesn't recognize that it's NULL.
How do I solve the problem?
Thanks,
Mich
Hi guys,
I wanted to know if there was a way to import multiple sheets from one excel file into one sql table in one go.
I have an excel file which has 15 sheets and want to import them into one table in one process rather than having to create 15 table and then joining into one table.
I am using Sql Server 2005(enterprise edition) v9 SP2.
Thanks
Krunal
Hello all.
I was wondering if there was a simple Import statement I could use in SQL to import an Access Table into SQL Server 2005.
I know how to use the SSIS Import/Export Wizard, but that seems excessive to import a single 204 record table
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
I am using the Bulk Insert command and trying to import a CSV delimited text file into a table and I am having problems with the quote field delimiters ", " The command below works but it takes in all the "" quotes as well and the field delimiter comma , works only if the commas are the separators only. If I have a comma within a address field for example then the data gets imported into the wrong fields. What can I use to identify that the text qualifier is ". I don't see where I can use the bulk insert command to determine this. Is there another command that I can use or am I using this command incorrectly. I thank you in advance for any response or suggestion you may have.
BULK INSERT AdventureWorks.dbo.MbAddress
FROM 'a:mbAddress.txt'
WITH (
DATAFILETYPE = 'char',
FIELDTERMINATOR=',',
ROWTERMINATOR='',
CODEPAGE = '1252',
KEEPIDENTITY,
KEEPNULLS,
FIRSTROW=2)
Here is a sample ascii file I am importing as well you can see that 6330 has a extra comma in the address line.
"AddressAutoID","Memkey","Type","BadAddress","Address1","Address2","Address3","City","State","Zip","Foreign","CarrierRoute","Dpbc","County","CountyNo","ErrorCode","ChangeDate","UserID"
6317,26517,1,0,"1403 W. Kline Ave","","","MILWAUKEE","WI","53221","","",0.00,"MILWAUKEE",79,"",1/25/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6318,26225,1,0,"501 Dunford Dr","","","BURLINGTON","WI","53105","","",0.00,"RACINE",101,"",1/25/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6319,20101,1,0,"2115 Cappaert Rd #35","","","MANITOWOC","WI","54220","","",0.00,"MANITOWOC",71,"",1/25/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6320,23597,1,0,"728 Woodland Park Dr","","","DELAFIELD","WI","53018","","",0.00,"WAUKESHA",133,"",1/25/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6321,23392,1,0,"7700 S. 51st St","","","FRANKLIN","WI","53132","","",0.00,"MILWAUKEE",79,"",1/25/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6322,26537,1,0,"W188 S6473 GOLD DRIVE","","","MUSKEGO","WI","53150","","",0.00,"WAUKESHA",133,"",1/26/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6323,25953,1,0,"3509 N. Downer Ave","","","MILWAUKEE","WI","53211","","",0.00,"MILWAUKEE",79,"",1/26/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6324,19866,1,0,"10080 E. Mountain View Lake Rd. #145","","","SCOTTSDALE","AZ","85258","","",0.00,"MARICOPA",13,"",1/27/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6325,25893,1,0,"W129 N6889 Northfield Dr. Apt 114","","","MENOMONEE FALLS","WI","53051-0517","","",0.00,"WAUKESHA",133,"",1/27/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6326,26569,1,0,"8402 64th Street","","","KENOSHA","WI","53142-7577","","",0.00,"KENOSHA",59,"",1/27/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6327,24446,4,0,"83 Sweetbriar Br","","","LONGWOOD","FL","32750","","",0.00,"SEMINOLE",117,"",1/30/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6328,19547,1,0,"4359 MERCHANT AVENUE","","","SPRING HILL","FL","34608","","",0.00,"HERNANDO",53,"",2/8/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6329,26524,1,0,"264 Lakeridge Drive","","","OCONOMOWOC","WI","53066","","",0.00,"WAUKESHA",133,"",2/10/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6330,23967,1,0,"3423 HICKORY ST","100 Tangerine Blvd., Brownsville, TX 78521-4368","Texas Phone Number: 956-546-4279","SHEBOYGAN","WI","53081","","",0.00,"SHEBOYGAN",117,"",2/15/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6331,25318,1,0,"3960 S. Prairie Hill Lane Unit 107","","","Greenfield","WI","53228","","",0.00,"MILWAUKEE",79,"",2/20/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6332,24446,1,0,"83 Sweetbriar BR","","","LONGWOOD","FL","32750","","",0.00,"SEMINOLE",117,"",2/21/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
6333,26135,1,0,"P.O. Box 8 127 Main Street","","","CASCO","WI","54205","","",0.00,"KEWAUNEE",61,"",2/21/2006 0:00:00,"admin"
Hello,
I am using the SSIS import/export wizard to import an Access table into a sql server 2005 database. The table has fields in Arabic (name, last name, etc.) and non-Arabic fields (gender, phone number, category, etc.).
The destination table has nvarchar columns.
After the import, I can see the Arabic characters in the destination table, but they appear in inverse order (from left to right). In Access (or Excel), Arabic fields appear as they should (from right to left) and non-Arabic fields are OK as well (from left to right).
If I do a simple copy-and-paste of a "correct" Arabic text into the table, the result is still wrong (inversed letters)...
Please help, I can't see what else to do.
Thank you.
I am using the DTS wizard and having problems importing excel into an existing table.
Problem is that various column in excel are defined as double in the wizard but in my db table it is defined as an integer.
How do I get around this issue so the data types in excel can match up accordingly to my defined data type in my db table?
The wizard does a bad job of guessing the correct data type.
I have heard of using a staging table to import from excel and using that as my source to import into my existing table.
I have several pdf files that need to be imported into the database. Each pdf file is to link to several rows in a database.
The files have different file names and keep coming every week. I need to import them into a table and link it with the data table. Need help on how to get the filename out of the pdf file and save it on the table with the image. I can use that filename as the foriegn key..Any help would be really great..
-Sri
I have a MS SQL table that I want to import into a test db in my SQL 2000. The table is filename.sql and has the script in it to set up the table, etc.
How do I import this table into the sql 2k db?
I tried the wizard and I cannot get a choice to locate the file. How does one go about importing a copy of a sql table? The help file wasn't much of a help, thanks for your input.
Hi,
I want to import all data ie tables, stored procedure, view etc from one database to another database in SQL Server 2005.
Example i have a database named Test which has 3 tables, few stored Procedure and many more things and i want to take all this data with data in the tables(all rows and columns) to a database named Huzefa in the same Server. Then is there any command for importing all data from from one table to another table....Please let me know...
Hi, I'm getting slightly frustrated...!
I've imported a couple of DTSs from 2k to 2005, now I know that they are stored in MSDB and I know that I need to export them to a file before I can work on them in SSIS.
The problem is:
How do I export them to a flat file?? I've looked everywhere and it's driving me nuts!
Also I can't seem to find out how to delete them either?! I can see the data sotred in the dtspackages90 table but how do I edit/get rid of them.
Help!
dBase importing was handled by the import/export tool provide with SQL 2000. I see no way to import .dbf files in sql 2005 except to load the sql 2000 tools. I realize that the dbf format is old, but there is still a lot of stuff that comes in dbf and sql2005 needs to support this.
Where can I find an importer for dbf to sql2005?
I keep hearing lots of work arounds but nothing to explain why a common data format can't be easily imported/exported in sql2005 tools. Whats the deal?
Hi,
Can anybody help me? I want to create a new table and i want to import the structure of another table to that new table but not the data.I want to do it by executing a single sql statement.Would it be possible?
Thanks!!
Joydeep
Hi All,I'm coming from using MySQL, and in their dialect you could pull data from one table to another using the following: INSERT INTO Table1 (fname, lname)VALUES( SELECT fname, lname FROM Table2 )Let's assume Table1 is a simple table with the fields ID (PK/Identity), fname, and lname. This query would grab all the first and last names out of Table2 (fname and lname fields) and insert them into Table1, generating the ID for each new row.How would I do this in T-SQL?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi, I’m trying to write a script on how to automate few tasks using the SQL Server Agent. Here is the step I need to do for the script, the step is similar importing a table:
1. Choose a Data Source - Import a table from a data source that is a text type, e.g. ImportTable_1.all from the location d:able
2. Select File Format - The File Format is a delimited, File Type is ANSI, the Row Delimiter is LF (Line Feed) and the Text Qualifier is Double Quote {“}
3. Specify Column Delimited – Comma
4. Choose a Destination - The Destination is Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server, using Window NT Authentication from the Database ‘ImportTBL’
5. Select Source Tables – The Destination Table name is SessTbl; in Transform, change the field name (e.g. TableID) and the data type (e.g. Int)
6. Save, Schedule and Replicate Package – Run immediately
7. Repeat step 1 – 6 again, but this time the table (e.g. ImportTable_2.all) must be appended to the first table. This is done on the daily basis.
Thanks in Advance
Regards
Andy
i used to be able to import Excel spreadsheets and convert them into SQL tables using MS SQL Server Enterprise Manager
however, i haven't been able to find out how to do this in Visual Studio 2005 - does anyone know how to do this (or whether it can be done at all) ?
Hi.
I have done this successfully the last time but just couldn't get it to work this time round. Please help.
I was trying to import data from an Excel file into MS SQL table. NONE of the numeric or value fields (right justified) works because they shown <NULL> in MS SQL table after the import via DTS. Those string fields were able to import ok into the table. DTS didn't show any error message during the DTS run.
Any advise? Thank you.
Best regards
Teck Boon
I have two tables I need to create in msSQL and I have the .sql files with the information in them, is it possible to insert them through enterprise manager?
Or another way? Or are they meant for mySQL?
cheers
Using some VB sample code on the Internet I have the followingthat works well and exports a set of records to an XML file:Dim oCmd, sSQL, oDomSet oDom = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0")Set oCmd = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")oCmd.ActiveConnection = "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=(local);InitialCatalog=TestXML;UID=sa;Password=123456"sSQL = "<ROOTxmlns:sql=""urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-sql""><sql:query>" & "select *from tblTest for xml auto</sql:query></ROOT>"oCmd.CommandText = sSQLoCmd.Dialect = "{5D531CB2-E6Ed-11D2-B252-00C04F681B71}"oCmd.Properties("Output Stream") = oDomoCmd.Execute , , 1024oDom.Save "C: emp estdts.xml"This is my first day of using XML in SQL Server and I need help on howto imitate INSERT statements by basically importing data from an xml file.With some changes I managed to write VB code that seems to be readingthe XML file I exported earlier but I can't seem to know what to do to beable to take the data only of the XML and INSERT it into a table.The code I used is the one found in the SQL Online Help, search in INDEXfor "OPENXML" and then choose "USING OPENXML"If you have sample code or can point me to a link that has sample code toachieve what I want, I would appreciate your help.Thank you
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an access database that i upsized a few weeks ago and i need to add another table form that database, however when i use the DTS import wizard to get the particular table i wish i get as far as picking the table but i cant preview or do the import, i get the following error message on it!
Error Source: Microsoft Jet Database, Error Description: record(s) cannot be read; No permission on the table 'InternetBilling', Context: error calling openrowset on the provider.
Ive working on a copy of the access database and given all user groups read persmission and im still getting this, how do i get around it?
With much thanks for any help,
Amit
Importing CVS to SQLServer 2005 in a web application:
I need to import CSV file to a table. This is a .Net 2.0 web application running in the WebServer which has .Net 2.0 installed. SQL Server 2005 is a database in another machine. What are my options? Would SSIS work in WebServer if no database installed in that machine.
Thanks
I am getting a dump of information from SAP into an Excel file. I would like to take this excel file and import the data into a SQL 2005 Express database.
Is this possible? Or will I need the full version of SQL to do this?
Thanks
I have about 50 Excel files from which I have to import data with some transformations to Sql Server. My first approach was to use Excel Source component in a data flow to read the data . However, as it turned out column X in some files was being converted to a DT_NTEXT blob and in other files it was mapped to WSTR. The reason I guess is because column X contained string of varying sizes - some greater than 255 characters while others less than 255 ( max was 3000 ) . My package used a ForEach loop to iterate over all the Excel files in a directory and feed that to the data flow task. I played around with IMEX and TypeGuessRows setting but they didnt help me . In my second approach I used 2 Excel sources ; one set up for the blob type and the other for the string type . I joined them together using a precedence contraint. This worked but I then figured out that there were 2 other columns in my data that exhibited the same behavior. I couldnt continue with the mulitple Excel source approach cause I would then have 8 Excel source components. Finally, I played around with Execute SQL Task . I selected the columns X,Y and Z , initialized 3 variables of type Object , used a ForEach to enumerate over the dataset and feed that to a script component that converted the objects to Strings. This seems to work for all types of data in the mulitple columns.
My question - has anyone encountered such problem ? What was the solution ? Just thought I would share this with the rest of the community. I cant seem to recall what the exact error I was getting ..but it was something like "cant convert long data to string " or something . I also keep getting annoying error icons in my Excel Source components used in the foreach loop. Something to do with acquire connection failed even after I set DelayValidation to "true".
Thanks
Please help - I am dealing with data transfer from multiple tables to multiple tables - what is the best practice to get this done? So far I have my connection to MySql figured out and I am using a DataReader source to get the data. What is the approriate Data Flow Transformation to pump data into three different tables in MS Sql 2005 database from three different tables in MySlq database? So far I was able to figure out how to do this for one table only...
Thanks,
Galina
Guys,
I am new to DTS 2005; having trouble on how to connect to MS Access to pull data? what kind of connection manager should I use (OLE?) and what specific Data Flow Source type? Please respond.
Thanks
I know that the DTS Wizard is supposed to be able to handle heterognous
data imports but I can't get it to work with a free FoxPro table. I have to export to a text file and then import from the text file and spend an hour renaming columns and farting around with datatypes.
CAN I GET A FOXPRO TABLE INTO SQL SERVER DIRECTLY OR NOT?
HOW DO I DO IT?
I don't fully understand some of the questions the DTS Wizard is asking. Can anybody give me a blow by blow account before I ring the Samaritans?
Thank you and Happy Christmas - it may be my last if I can't speed up these imports. Either I'll jump under a bus or my boss will make mince pies out of me.
Thanks
Mark
Hi,
I have Data split into 3 text files with 3 fields repeated in each to link then (key). I want to import this data into one table.
I used DTS to create 3 tables with the data. Now i want to combine the 3 tables into only one (that i already created). How can i do this? Note: the field names in the source tables are different from the destination table.
Thanks
Guy
Hi all-
I am in need of some help importing a .CSV file into a SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition.
The problem is I already implemented Bulk Insert task in SSIS but it is not importing any data. My detailed layout is as follows :
In SSIS package1 -
In Control Flow Bulk Insert Task has been inserted
Properties of Bulk Insert Task:
Connection adtc009d.ganny
Destination Table ganny.dbo.t4
Format
Format Specify
Row Delimiter {CR}
Column Delimiter Comma{,}
Source Connection
File r.csv
Options
Options Check Constraints
Maxerrors 20
This bulk insert task is connected to Data flow task, if we click edit to data flow task, data flow section will come, here Flat file source & OLE DB Destination is there. Flat file source is connected to OLE DB Destination.
Properties of Flat File
Connection Manager
Flat file connection Manager
here by clicking new link flat file properties to this.
Preview
by clicking preview all data are visible
Properties of OLE DB Destination editor
Oledb connection manager adtc009d.ganny
Data access mode: Table or View - fast load
Name of Table or view dbo.t4
After designing all this then if I start debugging I could able to get records are imported to a table.
Please suggest me where I am going wrong.
Thanks in advance
Karna
Hi to all
I am working on import module.
is there any direct query to import a text(CSV) file in to a database table?
any one can help me in this matter?
why is this the case when importing to sql server 2005?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm using DTSWizard to import a table from my main database to Temp.
This is the SQL statement...
CREATE TABLE [tempdb].[dbo].[xlaANLsubscribers] (
[subscriberid] int NOT NULL,
[pwd] varchar(255),
[name] varchar(255),
[deliveryformat] int,
[email] varchar(255),
[gender] varchar(255),
[phone] varchar(255),
[country] varchar(255),
[city] varchar(255),
[state] varchar(255),
[zip] varchar(255),
[address] varchar(1000),
[dateregistered] varchar(50),
[bounces] int
)
What I'd like to do for example, is exclude the first 5,000 rows, and import the rest.
Should I be using something other than DTSWizard, and it there something that can be added to the statement above telling it to start at a specified row?
This is probably fairly simple, but I'm new at this and I'd sure appreciate the help.
Thanks,
Bill