Transact SQL :: CSV File - Bulk Insert Row Terminator
Nov 5, 2010
I have a CSV file that I am trying to bulk load into a temp table. The data in the file is all jumbled together, as in, there does not appear to be a row terminator. However, I do see a bunch of little rectangular boxes that I assume are the row terminators.
When I run the bulk insert, the data is treated as one string. For example... If I have 10 columns in the table, the 10 columns will be populated, but the remainder of the data is dumped into the last column.
Here are the row terminators I have used so far that haven't worked.
,
,
,
, CRLF,
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Jul 16, 2004
Hi All,
I have a file that has fixed row size of 148 and fixed column size, but the file has no end of line character. I know it is wierd but a client has made the file and refuses to change the format. So I am stuck with reading it the way it is.
In Enterprise Manager, I used the Import/Export wizard and I specified fixed length and it let me specify 148 as the lenght of each line. Then it recognized the file and I was able to read it in.
I saved the DTS package and I can run it over and over again using dtsrun. However I want to do the same thing using Bulk Insert. How do you specify fixed row length for Bulk insert and how do you give it individual column lengths?
Thanks,
Shab
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Jul 16, 2004
Hi All,
I have a file that has fixed row size of 148 and fixed column size, but the file has no end of line character. I know it is wierd but a client has made the file and refuses to change the format. So I am stuck with reading it the way it is.
In Enterprise Manager, I used the Import/Export wizard and I specified fixed length and it let me specify 148 as the lenght of each line. Then it recognized the file and I was able to read it in.
I saved the DTS package and I can run it over and over again using dtsrun. However I want to do the same thing using Bulk Insert. How do you specify fixed row length for Bulk insert and how do you give it individual column lengths?
Thanks,
Shab
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Apr 19, 2004
Hi there, I'm trying to import a cobol file (.dat) which has a line feed as the row delimiter. Using the TransactSQL Bulk Insert with a row terminator of '' is not working for me. Does anyone know the equivilant row terminator of a LF? (Using the Import Export wizard I supply a {LF} and it likes that fine). I would like to use the Bulk Insert Statement for more control of the data. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
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Jul 23, 2005
Hello all,I have a multiple text files with an odd row terminator. If you were toexamine it in VB it would be like a "CrCrLf" instead of just "CrLf". InHEX it is DDA instead of just DA. When I am trying to import into mytable using BULK INSERT I use "" as the row terminator but that isputting the the previous character into the column and then it signalsa carriage return when I attempt to query the data.Any suggestions on what I should use as the row terminator? Is itpossible to tell BULK INSERT to use something like "CHAR(10)"?"" does NOT work.Thanks in advance.
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Oct 10, 2007
Hi,
I have a data file which consists of data as below,
4
PPU_FFA7485E0D||
T_GLR_DET_11||
While iam inserting into table using bulk insert, this pipe(||) is also getting inserted into the table,
here is my query iam using to insert the data using bulk insert.
BULK INSERT TABLE_NAME FROM FILE_PATH
WITH (FIELDTERMINATOR = ''||'''+',KEEPNULLS,FIRSTROW=2,ROWTERMINATOR = '''')
Can any one help on this.
Thanks,
-Badri
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May 16, 2012
I need fmt(format ) file for below values
“Stuid”,”Stuname”,”Class”,”DOJ”,”English”,”Math”,”Science”
"S1","Ram","10/31/2011,Monday",40,32,50
"S2","Bala","10/31/2011,Monday",50,45,69
"S3","Sam","10/31/2011,Monday",74,78,79
"S4","Jon","10/31/2011,Monday",65,58,89
"S5","Jos","10/31/2011,Monday",41,25,69
"S6","Jim","10/31/2011,Monday",74,41,41
"S7","Jack","10/31/2011,Monday",98,57,47
"S8","Sate","10/31/2011,Monday",87,73,45
"S9","Brb","10/31/2011,Monday",47,89,65
"S10","Jom","10/31/2011,Monday",14,100,47
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Aug 5, 2015
USE TEST
GO
/****** BULK INSERT ******/
BULK
INSERT [Table01]
FROM 'C:empdata.csv'
[code]....
I am using above code to insert csv file data which consist of arabic data as well. Upload is successful however Arabic field data is uploaded with invalid characters and getting the following error Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Line 3...Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage)
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Sep 15, 2015
How do I do a bulk insert into a temp table from a text file. Text file looks like that:
ver_id TYPE
E57AB326-803C-436E-B491-398A255C919A 58
34D2A601-6BBA-46B1-84E1-3A805FDA3812 58
986E140C-62F1-48F1-B428-3571EBF00DA0 58
My statement looks like this:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tblTemp]([ver_id] [nvarchar](255), [TYPE] [smallint])
GO
BULK INSERT [dbo].[tblTemp]
FROM 'C:v2.txt'
I keep receiving errors.
The error I receive is: Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 1, column 2 (TYPE).
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Dec 3, 2015
I am running Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard SP1 box. The SQL Server service is running as a simple windows domain user (nothing special, no admin rights, etc.) I am having some issues with using Bulk Insert when the data file is on a network share when using Windows Authentication. What is known is that the SQL Server service account has access to the network resource, which is shown by logging into SQL Server with a SQL account and doing the Bulk Insert. I also have rights to the files on the share, as shown by the fact that I put the files there. My SQL is in the form of:
Bulk Insert [table name] From '[server][share][filename]' With (FirstRow = 2, FormatFile='FormatFile.xml')
Now, when connecting to SQL Server with Windows Authentication and running the Bulk Insert I get the following error:
Msg 4861, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 Cannot bulk load because the file "[server][share][filename]" could not be opened. Operating system error code 5(Access is denied.).
I found this snip at
BULK INSERT (Transact-SQL)Security Account Delegation (Impersonation), which says, in part (emphasis mine):
To resolve this error [4861], use SQL Server Authentication and specify a SQL Server login that uses the security profile of the SQL Server process account, or configure Windows to enable security account delegation. For information about how to enable a user account to be trusted for delegation.
How to Configure the Server to be Trusted for Delegation, and we tried the unconstrained delegation and I rebooted the SQL server, but it still does not work. Later we tried constrained delegation and it still does not work.
I have verified the SPNs:
C:>setspn adsvc_sqlRegistered ServicePrincipalNames for CN=SVC_SQL,OU=Service Accounts,OU=Users,OU=ad domain,DC=ad,DC=local: MSSQLSvc/SQLQA.ad.local:1433 MSSQLSvc/SQLDev.ad.local:1433 MSSQLSvc/SQLQA.ad.local MSSQLSvc/SQLDev.ad.local
I have verified that my SQL connection is TCP and I am getting/using a Kerberos security token.
C:>sqlcmd -S tcp:SQLQA.ad.local,1433 -E1> Select dec.net_transport, dec.auth_scheme From sys.dm_exec_connections As dec Where session_id = @@Spid;2>
gonet_transport auth_scheme------------- -----------TCP KERBEROS(1 rows affected)1>
If I move the source file to a local drive (on the SQL server), all works fine, but I must be able to read from a file share?
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Jun 5, 2015
I try to import data with bulk insert. Here is my table:
CREATE TABLE [data].[example](
col1 [varchar](10) NOT NULL,
col2 [datetime] NOT NULL,
col3 [date] NOT NULL,
col4 [varchar](6) NOT NULL,
col5 [varchar](3) NOT NULL,
[Code] ....
My format file:
10.0
7
1 SQLCHAR 0 10 "@|@" 2 Col2 ""
1 SQLCHAR 0 10 "@|@" 3 Col3 ""
2 SQLCHAR 0 6 "@|@" 4 Col4 Latin1_General_CI_AS
[Code] .....
The first column should store double (in col2 and col3) in my table
My file:
Col1,Col2,Col3,Col4,Col5,Col6,Col7
2015-04-30@|@MDDS@|@ADP@|@EUR@|@185.630624@|@2015-04-30@|@MDDS
2015-04-30@|@MDDS@|@AED@|@EUR@|@4.107276@|@2015-04-30@|@MDDS
My command:
bulk insert data.example
from 'R:epoolexample.csv'
WITH(FORMATFILE = 'R:cfgexample.fmt' , FIRSTROW = 2)
Get error:
Msg 4823, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Cannot bulk load. Invalid column number in the format file "R:cfgexample.fmt".
I changed some things as:
used ";" and "," as column delimiter
changed file type from UNIX to DOS and adjusted the format file with "
" for row delimiter
Removed this line from format file
1 SQLCHAR 0 10 "@|@" 2 Col2 ""
Nothing works ....
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Feb 3, 2010
we can easily load a file into db tables. However, my main concern here is the number of columns in the file. A text file TEXT_1400.txt has 1400 columns. I am unable to load data to my db table using BCP or BULK INSERT commands, as maximum of 1024 columns are allowed per table in SQL Server 2008.
We can still go ahead and create ‘Wide Table’ (a special table that holds up to 30,000 columns. The maximum size of a wide table row is 8,019 bytes.). But when operating on wide table, BCP/BULK INSERT commands still fail. After few hours of scratching my head over BCP and BULK INSERT, I observed that while inserting BCP/BULK INSERT commands are unable to identify SPARSE columns and skip these columns, which disturbs column mapping and results in data conversion and trancation errors.
Is there any proper way to load this kind of files into the db table?
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May 15, 2015
I have a file which has some wind data that i am trying to import into a sql data base through bulk insert. if the script works as it supposed i should see 144 rows impacted but i see 0 rows affected.
BULK INSERT TOWER.RAWINTERFACE_1058 FROM 'C:Temp900020150427583.txt'
WITH(CHECK_CONSTRAINTS,CODEPAGE='RAW',DATAFILETYPE='char',FIELDTERMINATOR=' ',ROWTERMINATOR='
',FIRSTROW=172)
The code works if the file is large but if its small 0 rows are affected. and also if i remove the header rows then the file works again. want to understand what is going on here. i am including the screen shot of the file in notepad++. I have tried changing the row terminator to ' ' , ' ' and also tried to change the codepage but nothing seems to work. No error file is being generated either, if i give a error file option.
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Aug 11, 2015
Need to know a mode whereby somehow I can every time insert an additional column in a table while bulk inserting data to an existing table from a new flat file thus identifying the file from which, or the time when, the data was inserted in an existing table.
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Nov 20, 2015
SQL Server 2012
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?
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Jun 29, 2015
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')
[code]...
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Oct 12, 2007
Hi,
i have a file which consists data as below,
3
123||
456||
789||
Iam reading file using bulk insert and iam inserting these phone numbers into table having one column as below.
BULK INSERT TABLE_NAME FROM 'FILE_PATH'
WITH (KEEPNULLS,FIRSTROW=2,ROWTERMINATOR = '||')
but i want to insert the data into table having two columns. if iam trying to insert the data into table having two columns its not inserting.
can anyone help me how to do this?
Thanks,
-Badri
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Jan 2, 2008
Hey All,
Similar to a previous post (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=244646&SiteID=1), I am trying to import data into a SQL Table.
I am trying to program a small application that will import product data obtained through suppliers via CD-ROM. One supplier in particular uses Fixed width colums, and data looks like this:
Example of Data
0124015Apple Crate 32.12
0124016Bananna Box 12.56
0124017Mango Carton 15.98
0124018Seedless Watermelon 42.98
My Table would then have:
ProductID as int
Name as text
Cost as money
How would I go about extracting the data with an XML Format file? I am stumbling over how to tell it where to start picking up data for a specific column.
Is there any way that I could trim the Name column (i.e.: "Mango Carton " --> "Mango Carton")?
I don't know if it makes any difference, but I've been calling SQL from my code by doing this:
Code in C# Form
SqlConnection SqlConnection = new SqlConnection(global::SQLClients.Properties.Settings.Default.ClientPhonebookConnectionString);
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand();
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
cmd.CommandText = "INSERT INTO PhonebookTable(Name, PhoneNumber) VALUES('" + txtName.Text.ToString() + "', '" + txtPhoneNumber.Text.ToString() + "')";
cmd.Connection = SqlConnection;
SqlConnection.Open();
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
SqlConnection.Close();
RefreshData();
I am running Visual Studio C# Express 2005 and SQL Server Express 2005.
Thanks for your time,
Hayden.
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May 14, 2015
I am using a BCP format file to import a CSV file. The file looks like the following:
"01","02"
The format file looks like the following:
6.0
2
1 SQLCHAR 0 0 """ 0 ""
2 SQLINT 0 0 "","" 1 MROS
3 SQLINT 0 0 ""
" 2 MROF
When both the two fields are set to SQLCHAR data types the data imports successfully without the quotes as 01 and 02. These fields will always be numbers and I want them as integers so I set the data type to int in the database and SQLINT in the format file. The results was that the 01 became 12592 and the 02 became 12848. where these numbers are coming from?
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May 5, 2006
Hi folks,
I have a small problem - I am unable to load data from a .csv file into a table in SQL Server. Here is the command I am running:
BULK INSERT CCSProgramParticipation FROM 'c: est.csv'
WITH (
DATAFILETYPE = 'char',
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = ''
)
Data in test.csv is the following format: (date fields can be blank)
NY580232,0,6/30/2006,3567,396,7/1/2005,9/9/2005
NY580232,0,6/30/2006,14850,462,12/12/2005,
....
....
What I see is the data does get loaded; however, data from the following row is getting inserted in the last field of a particular row (previous row) - it seems like the rowterminator is being ignored.
Has anyone encountered this issue? Please let me know your thoughts on this.
Thanks so much!
-Parul
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Oct 9, 2013
I am bulk inserting from a csv file using
BULK INSERT testTable
FROM 'C:UsersRobsDocumentsSoccer2011-2012SC1.csv'
WITH
(
FIRSTROW=2,
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '
',
)
Works fine. Most of my csv files have the same number of columns, but some have 4 less. The files contain the same column headings as the full size ones(only 4 less). Is there a way when bulk inserting for sql to either skip these, or ignore the error.
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Mar 28, 2008
Well hi here is my text file
"Kelly","Reynold","kelly@reynold.com"
"John","Smith","bill@smith.com"
"Sara","Parker","sara@parker.com"
and a table with Id , name, surname, email
the ID is a autoincrement thats why it gives me error any way to to skip this ID so let the sql create it automaticaly for every row?
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Jul 20, 2005
Hi there,I have some text files saved using a UTF-8 encoding. The "BULK INSERT"statment in Sql Server 2000 is failing with a column length error. Savingthe file as ASCII removes the problem. However, I would like to import filesin UTF-8 format. I understand that the BCP tool, when used from the commandline, can take an "-F UTF8" argument, which allows it to work. Can this bedone from the SQL> prompt with the BULK INSERT statement?Cheers,Tobin
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Dec 28, 2007
hi friends
i am using bulk insert command for txt files
but now i want to use bulk insert command for dbf files
so plz any one can tell me how to use this command for dbf files
thanx in advance.........
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Feb 15, 2006
Hi everyone,I am trying to bulk insert some data from a csv file to a table. I can do it as part of a button on click event, but don't know how to do it using a stored procedure. This is what I have,ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.TestImportData (
@filename varchar(50) )
AS
BULK INSERT dbo.[TestTable]
FROM @filename
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ','
)
/* SET NOCOUNT ON */
RETURNI get the error message "Incorrect syntax near '@filename', Incorrect syntax near 'with'). What am I doing wrong? What should I do? Please help!
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Jun 27, 2002
Hi ,
I have imported an event log file from an NT server in a test database . The table has been created automatically with some 10 columns as Col001...Col002 ...and so on till Col0010 .
Now i want to copy the data of the event logs to specific columns . So i created a table with name such as Evnt , date , time , server and evntdescription so that whenever i can execute a simple query like
Select * from tablename where type = 'app' , Server = 'test1 ' .
so that i get all the results for that server 'test1 with type 'application' .
The problem is how do i insert that event log file into the table which i have created with different columns names . So that the data with 'App' should go to column 'type , data with server name should go to the column name server and so on ..
I tried all the was but could not succeed . Can i get some help in this regard please through some stored procedures or through DTS , if its possible .
The server is SQL Server 2000 with SP 1.
Many thanks
Anita .
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Apr 8, 2001
I want to use the bulk insert statement to insert data from a text file that contains more columns than the target sql table does. I am using SQL 7.0.
I am using a format file, but I can't work out how to achieve the above. SQL books online (and the msdn website) do not describe how to do this, but it is intimated that it can be done.
Any suggestions ?
Regards,
Stuart.
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Oct 20, 2005
SQL Server 2K
OK, I'm probably being a bone-head here and am clearly in over my head but how do you (or can you?) set up a Bulk Insert to take a dynamic path/file name?
What I want to do is pass in the path and file name from an external process to a stored procedure that bulk inserts the content of the file and then does some other routines on it. I haven't had any luck getting Bulk Insert to run if the path/file name is not hard-coded in the sproc as a string.
The point is to have a master routine that can exercise the process for several different customers and use meta data in a table to inform what file to bulk insert.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Feb 15, 2007
I import a group of sentences INSERT from a text file .... test
Insert Into XXXXX Values('UUUUUU','3')
Insert Into XXXXX Values('UUUUUU','3')
Insert Into XXXXX Values('UUUUUU','3')
Insert Into XXXXX Values('UUUUUU','3')
Insert Into XXXXX Values('UUUUUU','3')
Insert Into XXXXX Values('UUUUUU','3')
Insert Into XXXXX Values('UUUUUU','3')
Insert Into XXXXX Values('UUUUUU','3')
The file contains 1000 insert (Aprox); I read lines for lines the file I make the insert
In VS.NET 2003 it works correctly and the process consumes little memory but In VS.NET 2005 the pocket is without space.
How I can specify the factor of growth of the database SQL Mobile?
How another thing can be happening?
I sorry for my inlges ... i speak spanish
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Mar 11, 2008
i have a log file, i am trying to import data from it to SQL in order to analyze the data (able to query on the data), however that task seems impossible.
In fact the log file contains a varying number of column fields (error logged, various types of data logged demand varying number of columns). More than that the fields themself are hard to extract.
An example of data in my log is:xxxxxxxx is some alphanumeric chars2008-01-09 20:16:05,4784E36F.req,10.1.1.26,xxxxxxxxx,OK -- SMPP - xxxxxxx:xxxxx,Sender=xxxx;SMSCMsgId=2028eecc;Binary=1;DCS=8;Data=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx...2008-01-09 20:16:05,4784E338.req,10.1.1.26,xxxxxxxx,Retry Pending - ERROR: Timeout waiting for response from server or lost connection -- SMPP - xxxxxxxxxxx:xxxxx,Sender=xxxxx........
I may use regular expressions to extract the data, and maybe use a regular INSERT to put in the right table. Thus it seems like making a manual Bulk Insert(yeah and it may take much more time), it seems strange, can i use somehow some additional tool (in SQL package or external), to assist somehow.
Thanks and sorry if this is double posted !
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Apr 4, 2008
Hello, I am doing a bulk insert using a XML Format file from a csv file. Most everything works just fine, but my delimiter is a , the problem is one of the column sets sometimes contains a , within "" like this:
value1,"value,2",value3
So when I do my insert it is distorting the column values because unlike excel it is not ignoring the comma within the quotes. Is there any way to set an attribute within the format file to prevent this from happening?
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Jan 17, 2008
I Have a fixed width file where the format look like below:
f1 - 16
f2 - 64
f3 - 64..
....etc
and the format file that i created looks like:
8.0
20
1 SQLCHAR 0 16 "" 0 ExtraField
2 SQLCHAR 0 64 "" 0 ExtraField
3 SQLCHAR 0 64 "" 0 ExtraField
4 SQLCHAR 0 16 "" 1 DatabaseName
5 SQLCHAR 0 128 "" 0 ExtraField
6 SQLCHAR 0 24 "" 2 DelivaryDay
7 SQLCHAR 0 4 "" 0 ExtraField
8 SQLCHAR 0 3 "" 0 ExtraField
9 SQLCHAR 0 24 "" 0 ExtraField
10 SQLCHAR 0 3 "" 0 ExtraField
11 SQLCHAR 0 24 "" 0 ExtraField
12 SQLCHAR 0 64 "" 0 ExtraField
13 SQLCHAR 0 24 "" 0 ExtraField
14 SQLCHAR 0 24 "" 0 ExtraField
15 SQLCHAR 0 24 "" 3 CompleteDate
16 SQLCHAR 0 24 "" 0 ExtraField
17 SQLCHAR 0 24 "" 0 ExtraField
18 SQLCHAR 0 24 "" 0 ExtraField
19 SQLCHAR 0 24 "" 0 ExtraField
20 SQLCHAR 0 256 "" 0 ExtraField
I need to take only three coulmns from the file and the text file won't contain any delimeters between the fields.
I tried to execute this using Bulk..Insert and i am getting the error:
Cannot bulk load. Invalid column number in the format file "C:sampleXXXX.fmt"
Any one can help me what is the problem here?
I am using SQL Server 2000.
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Aug 24, 2007
Hi ,
I was wondering if there was a way in a format file to load a host file data field to more than one column in a table?
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