Output And Reading Data From A Text File??
Sep 1, 1999
Hi,
How would I be able to query a table (ie. all people with last name 'Smith'), have that set of data outputted to a regular text file (in a formatted way)
And what's the best way to manipulate that set of data to let's say update a Yes/No field in that table to mark that that those individuals('Smith') which were outputted in that text file?
What about the reverse? If I got a regular text file with Last Name, Social Security(delimited by tab), etc is there a way I can get SQL Server to read that text file and make an update to the database based on the Social security in that text file.
Any help would be immensely appreciated!
Angel
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Apr 21, 2007
I have text output files which are semi-structured.(Headers + irregular length tables below)
Is there a simple method of getting them into sql format(line by line) to try and extract data from them?
I know this won't be easy but its been worrying me for a long time. I have a method of importing the data into excel, but although difficult, it must be possible to get a system to get it into sql server. This must be a fairly common issue.
John
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Jun 6, 2007
Hi everyone I have a directory that contains a lot of text files that have data I need to draw from. I want to know if it is possible to write a program that will read all of the text files in the directory and pull out data and save it to a new textfile. For example: Each text file is formatted this wayColumn1, Column2, Column3"1","xxxx","yyyy""2", "xxxx", "yyyy""3", "XXXX", "yyyy" I want to put all lines that begin with 1 in one text file, all the lines that begin with two in another text file, and the same with all lines that begin with 3. my problem is I want to be able to point at the folder that contains those files and have it read every text file in the folder and perform the operation. If this is possible can someone point me in the right direction on how to get started.Thank you for any help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Apr 17, 2012
I am running SQL Server 2000 and need to output query data to a text file. If I run the following query (Below) using XP_CMDSHELL and BCP, it runs fine and creates a text file with the data output.
However, I need to change the WHERE Field1=10 to a string value WHERE Field1='abc'. When I try to do this I get a general error on the Field1='xyz'. I tried to change the quotes, etc but I am still getting the error.
Command:
Exec master..xp_cmdshell 'bcp "SELECT Field1 FROM Table WHERE Field1=10" queryout c:filename.txt -U UserName -P Password /S SQLServerNam /c'
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Feb 23, 2007
I have a DTSX package which reads values from a fixed-length text file using a data reader and writes some of the column values from the file to an Oracle table. We have used this DTSX several times without incident but recently the process started inserting NULL values for some of the columns when there was a valid value in the source file. If we extract some of the rows from the source file into a smaller file (i.e 10 rows which incorrectly returned NULLs) and run them through the same package they write the correct values to the table, but running the complete file again results in the NULL values error. As well, if we rerun the same file multiple times the incidence of NULL values varies slightly and does not always seem to impact the same rows. I tried outputting data to a log file to see if I can determine what happens and no error messages are returned but it seems to be the case that the NULL values occur after pulling in the data via a Data Reader. Has anyone seen anything like this before or does anyone have a suggestion on how to try and get some additional debugging information around this error?
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May 2, 2007
Guys, need help! I know this is not area for VBScript question, but possible I will find someone to help. Here is my question.
How can I read a text file of product IDs (ProductID contain only the first three character at the bigining of each line -- for example 220)and retrieve just those lines that meet a specified pattern?
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Is there anyway Sql Server reads a "Tab Delimited Text File" and Compare each record with the Column in a table..
my question is..
I've a Country_Code table which has 3 letter Country Code and the Actual Country names are listed in a Tab Delimited Text File "Country Data" with Country Code and Country Name, how do i read each record and compare to get the Actual Country Name for Display.
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Mar 25, 2008
Hi All,
I Need to load the text(CSV) files into sql server using text reader. Please can any one give me the code for that.
I want read that file in web page only. I can't use Bulk Insert.
First I will read the file into data set. Then i wanna update that in sql server table.
Thank you,
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Jul 13, 2007
Hi,
I'm wondering if there is any way to get SSIS to notice, in the Flat File Source, that a "Ragged right" text input file has a record that is too short to populate all the specified columns.
I am reading data from a file that is supposed to be fixed length records, but record 193,591 (out of approx. 500,000) is 20 bytes short of the fixed length (60 bytes). So I changed the input to "ragged right" and found that I can thereby continue to read the file, and load the data (after setting the "maximum errors" to a number greater than the initial "1"). (Without this change to "ragged right", every record after the bad one was "out of synch" with the column arrangement -- so they never made it into the database table destination.)
But the "failures" I am now getting are during the Data Conversion step, when I try to convert some columns to integers (from text, in the input stream). And by looking at the data with a "Redirect Row" setting for the Data Conversion step, I am able to see that the Flat File Source is reading "right past the end of the row."
Is there a way to get the Flat File Source to honor the CR-LF record terminator, and decide that some text columns should contain "nothing" (NULL or zero-length strings), rather than the bytes that contain the CR-LF and the initial text from the next record? Can this somehow be noticed as an error condition?
Dan
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May 11, 2008
Hi,
I would like to read from a Text File using SSIS Integration Package.
The file has a fixed number of columns, let's say 3 columns.
There is no row header and each columns length is fixed. There is no delimiter as well.
Here is the sample of the file contents:
John Doe USA
Mary Monroe UK
Andy Archibald Singapore
Here is the hints to read the file contents
123456789
0123456789
0123456789
==============================
John Doe USA
Mary Monroe UK
Andy Archibald Singapore
If you notice, from the 1st column until the 9th column, it's reserved for the first name.
The 10-th column until the 19th column, it's reserved for the last name. Finally the 20-th column until the 29th column is reserved for the Origin Country.
Since there's no delimiter inside the flat file contents, i have difficulty in parsing this text using SSIS Package.
Please let me know if you need any necessary information.
Thanks for all your help.
Regards,
Hadi Teo.
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Apr 27, 2006
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Jun 18, 2007
I am using SQL Server 2000.
Wanted to get the below result of below SP in text file using DTS. SP's out put is mix of text lines (as in print statement) and result of a table (FinInterface.dbo.UsersThatDontExist ). I am having difficulty to have the results of sp in text file. Any help there!!!!
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[F1USERLIST] AS
print '========================================='
print 'Finance One Daily User Records Report '
declare @recordcount as int
declare @nodename sysname
Exec master.dbo.xp_regread @rootkey='HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE',
@key='SYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlComputerNameComputerName',
@value_name='ComputerName', @value=@NodeName OUTPUT
print getdate()
print '========================================='
print 'This email was generated automatically by'
Print 'Data Transformation Service(DTS Package): Finance One user List 2'
Print 'In Database : ' + db_name()
Print 'On Server : ' + @NodeName
Print ' '
print '-----------------------------------------------------------------'
Select @RecordCount=(select count(*) from FinInterface.dbo.UsersThatDontExist)
If @RecordCount>0
begin
SELECT user_id AS USERNAME,
fst_name AS FIRST_NAME,
lst_name AS LAST_NAME
FROM FinInterface.dbo.UsersThatDontExist
Print 'There were ' + ltrim(str(@RecordCount)) + ' users in Finance One with incorrect information'
end
else
Print 'All users in Finance One have valid information'
print 'ACTION REQUIRED: Please update the user information in Finance One'
print '======================================='
Print 'End of Report'
GO
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Jan 22, 2002
Hi,
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Any idea how to write it?
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Oct 27, 1999
Hi all,
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Jan 28, 2002
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Jul 23, 2005
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Apr 13, 2001
Hi List
I have stored procedure which need 4 input variables. I want to send the stored procedure output to Table or text file. Is there any way I can do it let me know. Here is the stored procedure.
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Thanks in advance
Wang...
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Jan 27, 2000
Hi I am using bcp command to export data from a table to a text file. I want to be able to save this output from bcp into log.txt how can I do that.
this is the output that I need to save it , If I run the bcp command from sql window, this output is shown in the result window, but I need to save it in a text file in c:
thanks for your help
Ali
output NULL
Starting copy...
1000 rows successfully bulk-copied to host-file. Total received: 1000
1000 rows successfully bulk-copied to host-file. Total received: 98000
1000 rows successfully bulk-copied to host-file. Total received: 99000
1000 rows successfully bulk-copied to host-file. Total received: 100000
NULL
100491 rows copied.
Network packet size (bytes): 4096
Clock Time (ms.): total 85143 Avg 0 (1180.26 rows per sec.)
(106 row(s) affected)
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Jul 29, 2003
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