I have tried to upload about 1 million records from a foxpro table to SQL Server. It only loaded about 700,000 records.
I found out that the drive where the SQL Server transaction log file were located had increased to 15 gigs and I run out of disk space.
I guess that is the reason it could not load the rest of the records.
What should be the option setting in my SQL Server database when doing "bulk uploads"?.
Should I delete table indexes when uploading?.
Should I set the Recovery Model to simple?.
Thanks
hi, i need to create two instances of db and transfer incremental uploads from one db to another without having to transfer the entire table of data again and again. how should i go about it? what commands should i use?
Hi,I created a small application to upload small video files on my local machine and tested it to work perfectly on my local sql server database. I then change the connection string to connect to the remote database.When I do this and try to upload, the application hangs and the video file is not uploaded. The file is small file only about 10MB or less.When I upload the same file locally,it works perfectly fine and uploads quickly without hanging.Here's a link to sample of my web.config filehttp://www.bleusolutions.com/sampleconfig.txt Here's a link to the pagehttp://www.bleusolutions.com/foto/uploadvideo.aspxI believe that this may be a database issue. I am running my application locally (http://localhost:4796/BleuS/foto/uploadvideo.aspx)and all I do is change the web.config connection string to point to my local database or to the remote database. When I point to my local database the application works fine as you can see: http://www.bleusolutions.com/images/localupload.jpgWhen I run the application locally and change the connection string to point to the remote database this is when I have problems with the same video file. The application hangs for a minute or two and then it finally finishes the upload. When I go to the database to view the table the table takes a minute or two to open and then I get this message:http://www.bleusolutions.com/images/remoteupload.jpgAnd this is what the table looks like after I click Okhttp://www.bleusolutions.com/images/remoteupload2.jpg Any help on why this is happening or how I can fix this issue will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
I have to update a field within a table of 60 records or so. Each record has a different field value. it's type varchar. i was given an excel file with the field values and was thinking of a bulk update like bulk insert, but i don't recall that it's possible that way.
Is the only way to create a table, bulk insert, then merge the two tables together with UPDATE?
Just wanted to see if there was an easier way to do it, otherwise i'll take the latter route. Thanks!
I have a table containing 8 million records. I need to replace 2 million of these records with a scaled down query that goes something like: SELECT 1, ShareholderID, Assets1 FROM MyTable (Yields appx. 200,000 recods) SELECT 2, ShareholderID, Assets2 FROM MyTable (Yields appx. 200,000 recods) . . . SELECT 10, ShareholderID, Assets1 + Assest2 + Assets3 + ... + Assets9 FROM MyTable (Yields appx. 200,000 recods)
Updates and cursors just seem to be too slow.
So far I have done the following, but was wondering if anyone could think of a better way. SELECT 6 million records that don't need to be deleted into a #TempTable Use statements above to select into same #TempTable DROP and recreate Original Table SELECT 6 + 2 million records INTO original table.
This seems rather convoluted. Is there a better approach? Would it be worth while to dump data to a file and use bcp / Bulk Insert
Hi All, Please some one help me... I have to insert a csv into one table in sql server. But the problem is the file is in one server and SQL SERVER 2005 is in other server.. how do i insert the file.... please help me.....
I'm trying to use Bulk insert for the first time and getting the following error. I think it might have something to do with my Format File and from the error msg there's a conversion error for the first column. In my database the Field is nvarchar(6) so my best guess is to use SQLNChar for the first column. I've checked the end of each line is CR LF therefore the is correct for line 7 right?
Msg 4863, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Bulk load data conversion error (truncation) for row 1, column 1 (ASXCode). Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error. Msg 7330, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Cannot fetch a row from OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)".
BULK INSERTtbl_ASX_Data_temp FROM 'M:DataASXImportTest.txt' WITH (FORMATFILE='M:DataASXSQLFormatImport.Fmt')
Before implementing memory based bulk copy insert with IRowsetFastLoad interface of SQL Server 2005 OLE DB provider, I want to know some considerations.
- performance : compared with T-SQL's "BULK INSERT ..." and bcp utility
- SQL Server's resource usage : when running memory based bulk copy, server resource's influence
- server side action(behavior) : when server is busy, delayed-update means IRowsetFastLoad::Commit(true) method can insert right after?
- row-count : The rowcount limitation can be inserted by IRowsetFastLoad::InsertRow() method before IRowsetFastLoad::Commit
I'm just learning SSIS and I've hit my first bump. I am doing a bulk import from a tab delimited text file to an empty sql table that has a Idendity column defined. How do I tell the bulk insert task to skip that column when inserting from the text file. If I remove the identity column it imports the data fine, but I want to create the indentity column in the table too.
I am currently struggling with a problem bulk inserting data into sql server.
The application I am writing is multi-threaded and downloads about 2000 records every 2 seconds on x amount of threads (depending on bandwidth).
What I would like to do is find a 'friendly' way to insert this data into sql server without hammering the cpu.. I have tried the following with little success.
1, Using a single insert and thread.sleep(x * 20) to allow for massive data input, altough this made the application more stable and lowered cpu usage to very little the data takes about 60 times longer to download and process into the database.
2, Using a SqlDataAdapter and DataSet and updating the database via the .Update method of the data adapter.. Simply this was awful and took forever to process the data into the database.. (Took about 30 seconds to process 2000 records and Command Timeout was high).
3, Using OpenXML in SqlServer and parsing the data as an XML string (nText), although this method is fast its still very CPU intensive. I have to set the command timeouts very high to allow for this approach (because of the multi-threaded nature of the app).
Does anyone have any idea's on a cpu friendly approach to this problem ??
Hello, I need help regarding bulk insert into sql server. basically i m making a customized webapplication to save all the file and directories saving it in an arraylist and then want to save the contents of that array list into sql server table. now my questions are: 1) should i use arraylist for this purpose(i mean is it fast as my data is too big) 2) how to save all the data from arraylist into sql server table with bulkinsert or smthing like that. i dont want to use insert query with looping through the arraylist, as it will take lot of time and resources. hope you get my query.
Hi! I'm building a web application. I need to read data from a text or excel file and process the data and then store the result records into database. The record number is big. I can store the data record into database (SQL Server 2005) one at a time. I think it's slow. Is there any way to insert the data in bulk.
I am working on sql server bulk copy program. I am getting data files from our vendors for shares and stocks. The data files are pipe separated values. for ex the Ascii file format is
8388182|"ACC consultanats"|"rating for the current financial year"|23
My doubt is i have four columns in my sql server table named stocks.
In this the third column named memo1 in the data file would be a large volume data. That is it may be upto one full A4 size page. One important thing is, data in the third column is not formatted.
Since it is very urgent, let me know what would be the format file for this type of data file and the bulk copy program utility.
I am running the following: BULK INSERT DB.dbo.[stblCLIENT] FROM 'SERVER1downloadClient.txt' WITH ( FIELDTERMINATOR = 'Ř', ROWTERMINATOR = '' ) DB.dbo.[stblCLIENT] is on SERVER2. I receive the following error: "Could not bulk insert because file 'SERVER1downloadClient.txt' could not be opened. Operating system error code 53(The network path was not found.)."
I am able to run a DTS package that imports the same text file from SERVER1 with no error.
Is BULK INSERT limited to importing text files from the server on which SQL Server is running or should I be able to BULK INSERT from another server on my LAN?
I'm trying to import data from flat file in table and have fewproblems.1.Field Delimiter is ',' (comma). If ',' occurs in quotedstring it is still treated as field delimiter. This is BUG or ?2.In table I have datetime field that can be null, but bulkinsert reports error if in flat file is null or ''. It's OK only whenreal date is specified.Table:create table AttachmentList (Code integer not null,ClassID integer null,Description varchar(200) null,ValidUntil datetime null,constraint PK_ATTACHMENTLIST primary key (Code))flat file.1,13,'Naputak, CU 261098', ''Thanks in advanceDavor
I have a web page that prompts a user to select a csv file. Using a Bulk Insert the data is loaded into a SQL Server 2005 table.
I have been using the Bulk Insert with SQL Server 200 with no problems, but with 2005 I am getting the error "You do not have permission to use the bulk load statement".
My web.config file has the following connection string: [code] <add key="connectionString" value="Server=(local);Database=BroadCastOne;trusted_connection=true" /> [/code]
I've given bulkAdmin role to the ASPNET user. It's still not working. What am I doing wrong?
Here, is the example of Bulk Insert into SQL Server Table. From Application you have to pass a XML string to a Stored Procedure and it will insert all data into table using that XML. Example SP.
CREATE PROCEDURE StoredProcName ( @strXML varchar(8000) ) AS Declare @intPointer int exec sp_xml_preparedocument @intPointer output, @strXML
I need to update a number of sql server tables, the data sources for these coming from a number of stored procedures. I want a generic way of getting the data and then passing this data to the tables.I am thinking of doing this for each table:Populating a datasetWriting this dataset to XMLUsing SQLXML Bulk Load to pass this XML to the database to updateI can create the xml data file by: dataset.WriteXml("C:data.xml")The problem I have is that the example (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/316005/en-us) I looked at relies on the schema being defined:<?xml version="1.0" ?><Schema xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-data" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml:datatypes" xmlns:sql="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-sql" > <ElementType name="CustomerId" dt:type="int" /> <ElementType name="CompanyName" dt:type="string" /> <ElementType name="City" dt:type="string" /> <ElementType name="ROOT" sql:is-constant="1"> <element type="Customers" /> </ElementType> <ElementType name="Customers" sql:relation="Customer"> <element type="CustomerId" sql:field="CustomerId" /> <element type="CompanyName" sql:field="CompanyName" /> <element type="City" sql:field="City" /> </ElementType></Schema>Is there any way I can create the schema 'on the fly' similar to how I did for the data source file.As I could then pass these files to the database:objBL.Execute ("schema.xml","data.xml");
I have an SSIS job that is pumping to a SQL Server Destination, hundreds of gigabytes of raw text files. Today I received this strange error - does anyone have insight? Also, how would I make the data tasks more stable and robust so that this doesn't cause package failure (retries, or something?)
[SQL Server Destination [4076]] Error: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E14. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E14 Description: "Cannot fetch a row from OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)".". An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E14 Description: "The OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.". An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E14 Description: "Reading from DTS buffer timed out.".
I need to create a T-sql script to create logins in bulk so users can access views on the database. Usernames as used in the local domain are all stored in a table.
Users already exist in the domain (let’s say: MYDOMAIN)ADSI.dbo.Ad.username is the column wich contains the usernames as used in the Active Directory domain (+/- 350)Script needs to check if login already exists to make sure login is not added twice.If possible give all these users db_datareader role, in let’s say: MYDATABASE
I want to be able to run the following command from SSMS (as an ad-hoc query).
BULK INSERT Database_Name.dbo.Table_Name FROM 'serverfile.txt' WITH (FIELDTERMINATOR = '|', ROWTERMINATOR = '0x0a', MAXERRORS = 0);
When I do I get:
Msg 4861, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot bulk load because the file "serverfile.txt" could not be opened. Operating system error code 5(Access is denied.).
I have full access to the file.I can do the same command successfully if the file is stored on a local drive on the server.
According to my DBA I can not run it with a remote file location because I don't have the SA permission. His solution is for me to create a job that runs the command. I have done so and the job works correctly.
Is he correct that there is no way for me to be able to run it from SSMS without SA permissions?
Hi All,I have an asp.net 2.0 app that needs to bulk load data from an xml file into a Sql Server (Express) table. Is there an easy way to do this?Thanks,Claude.
I'm able to successfully import data in a tab-delimited .txt file using the following statement.
BULK INSERT ImportProjectDates FROM "C: mpImportProjectDates.txt" WITH (FIRSTROW=2,FIELDTERMINATOR = ' ', ROWTERMINATOR = '')
However, in order to import the text file, I had to add columns to the text file to match the columns that exist in the table. The original file is an export out of another database and contains all but 5 columns from my db.
How would I control which column BULK INSERT actually imports when working with a .txt file? I've tried using a FORMAT FILE, however I kept getting errors which I tracked down to being a case of not using it with a .txt file.
Yes, I could have the DBA add in the missing columns to the query from the other DB to create the columns, however I'd like to know a little bit more about this overall.
I've been reading about the "table lock on bulk load" option and TABLOCK hint.
So my understanding is by default only row locks are taken out and other queries can read/write data while the bulk load is going on. However if you were doing parallel bulk loads with overlapping keys from a clustered index then they may block each other.
But if the option is enabled, you can do the parallel bulk loads without blocking because a table lock is taken out, however, other processes couldn't read/write the data until they're all done.
Is that the gist of it? I think I got confused by some misinformation. Don't all those row locks eventually likely escalate to a table lock anyway though?
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.
I saved the result into a csv file and then truncated the table. Now, I am trying to bulk insert the data into the table. So I used:
bulk insert rdb.dbo.scd_event_tab from 'C:userssluintel.ctrdesktopeventtab.csv' with ( codepage = 'RAW', datafiletype = 'native', fieldterminator = ' ', keepidentity, keepnulls ); go
However, I get this error:
Msg 4867, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Bulk load data conversion error (overflow) for row 1, column 1 (JOB_ID). Msg 4866, Level 16, State 5, Line 1
The bulk load failed. The column is too long in the data file for row 1, column 3. Verify that the field terminator and row terminator are specified correctly.
Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.
Msg 7330, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Cannot fetch a row from OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)".
