i have bulk data that i dont want to have to enter manually. How can i achieve this for sql server. I want to be able to load from a text file (or any text format) with my data separated by delimeters. I know oracle has something that does this called sql loader.
Hello, I'm having the following situation. To exchange data between software-programs we have to use textfiles. These files are like: "2100880000095500400600000329000 00000329000 WNOW0121102B 1121". I have to cut the textfiles into lines of 256 characters. Next thing i have to do is cutting that line in chunks (by a defined structure) and use these chunks to insert them into colums in SQL Server. Example, the line above will become something like: "INSERT INTO table (21, 008800000955, '004006', etc, etc) ". The code now is: i've opened a connection, and then I'm doing an INSERT per row, but when i have to insert 800.000 rows like this, it's a real bottleneck. Is there any way to perform the INSERTS quicker ?? By a bulk or something ?? Can anyone help me ??
Short version: The best/fastest way to load large amounts of data from a comma delimited text file into an SQL Server table. Where the text file contains date fields in ccyy/mm/dd format and the SQL Server table defines those fields as datetime data types.
Details: When I attempt to load files (using either bcp or BULK INSERT) containing datetime data the load process errors because the datetime fields in my text file are in ccyy/mm/dd format and the default format for SQL Server is mm/dd/yy. I have been unable to change the default format by using the SET DATEFORMAT statement (apparently the SET DATEFORMAT statement will not work for bcp because bcp runs outside of the SQL Server session???). The only alternatives that I have come up with are: 1) Change the format of date fields in the text file from ccyy/mm/dd to mm/dd/ccyy. 2) Create a temporary table that defines the date fields as a char(n) datatype. Then load the data into the temp table. Then SET the DATEFORMAT to ccyy/mm/dd. Then copy the temp table into the permanent table (the permanent table using datetime data types).
Both of these alternatives would require additional processing time. Since this is a process that loads large amounts of data on a monthly (soon to be weekly) basis, speed is of the essence.
I ask for your help for problem of SQL Server 7 DTS . I got 6 text data files extracted from a SQL server database Sale1 in Company A. I also got a script produced from Sale1 and run it in my company to build a SQL server database A_Sale which structure is the same as Sale1. Then, I transferred these files into my database A_Sale. I have successfully transferred three files (vlet, vlrl, and vlcv), without any trouble. But I met trouble for transferring other three files (vlcl, vlco, and vlpo). For example, the error messages are as: "Error during Transformation 'DirectCopyXform' for Row number1. …Conversion invalid for datatype on column pair 12 (source column 'Col012'(DBTYPE_STR), destination column 'cl_dob' (DBTYPE_14))." "Error during Transformation 'DirectCopyXform' for Row number 10825. …Conversion invalid for datatype on column pair 17 (source column 'Col017'(DBTYPE_STR), destination column 'c0_stchdt" (DBTYPE_14))." - I don't understand why the datatype is not matched? The datatype is 'int' in both source column and destination column and the data for the source column is like 2533222. And, why the error caused for Row 1 for file vlcl and for Row 10825 for file vlco? How to correct the error? Other errors I met like: "Error at Source for Row number 24391. …Column Delimiter not found." - I don't know how to avoid the error at source? My partner in companyA also cannot control to avoid the error, since the file extracted by SQL server. "Error at Destination for Row number 531377. …Could not allocate space for object '(SYSTEM table id:-269896619)' in database 'TEMPDB' because the 'DEFAULT' filegroup is full." - Why the error caused for row 531377 and how to correct it?
DataBase i am using is Sql Server6.5. In a trigger i had written code to transfer updated records from one table to other table.These updated records needs to be written into a text file. I had used xp_cmdshell but it is taking time.Is there a way to write data to flat file.
Greetings,I want to bulk load data into user defined SQL Servertables. For this i want to disable all the constraints on all the userdefined tables.I got solution in one of the thread and did the following:declare @tablename varchar(30)declare c1 cursor for select name from sysobjects where type = 'U'open c1fetch next from c1 into @tablenamewhile ( @@fetch_status <> -1 )beginexec ( 'alter table ' + @tablename + ' check constraint all ')fetch next from c1 into @tablenameenddeallocate c1goNow when i try to truncate one of the tables (say titles) it gives methe following error:Cannot truncate table 'titles' because it is being referenced by aFOREIGN KEY constraint.Can anyone show me the right path? I am working on ASE 12.5TIA
I have several 2012 availability groups running on a cluster. I have one database that is bulk loaded every 30 minutes. The DB is about 1 GB in size. To be on the availability group it has to be set to full recovery mode, but simple or even bulk would obviously be better. Is there a better way to handle the transaction log size other than to run a backup after each bulk load causing extra overhead? With mirrors you could use simple, but since those are going away . . .
Can somebody please help me with the following problem.
I want to import data from a textfile called "Links.txt" into a SQL-server database called "LinkData". The data in this textfile is separated by pipelines. And this import should be done every 2 hours automatically. How can I make a proces or something in SQL server 7 that will fill the database with the data out of this textfile every 2 hours. Please help me. I really don't know.
I want to import data from a textfile called "Links.txt" into a SQL-server database called "LinkData". The data in this textfile is separated by pipelines. And this import should be done every 2 hours automatically. How can I make a proces or something in SQL server 7 that will fill the database with the data out of this textfile every 2 hours. Please help me. I really don't know.
I was planning on using DTS for this Only I really don't know how. I tried it with "Data driven query task" in combination with "Text file (source)" and "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server". But when I run it, it gives an error. What am i doing wrong??? Help me please
I have an existing table I need to add data to. The data is in a text file, and the existing table already has data in it (I don't want to delete this I want to add to it).
I used Microsoft's import utility but this created a seperate table with generic fieldnames (column01, column02, ect). Is there a step in this wizard I missed?
I have a csv file with 1.8 million records. Few of the text columns in each row has commas(,) in them and hence those columns are enclosed by " ".
An example record would look like: 123,abc,"abc, city, state",222,...
Now, the 3rd column should be read as: abc, city, state But, it is reading ("abc) into 3rd column, and (city) into 4th column and (state") into 4th column resulting in data errors.
Is there a way to specify that fields are optionally enclosed by " as we do in Oracle?
my dba folks are coming back with an answer to a question that sounds strange and I thought I would check on here.
Situation.
We are using an ETL tool I developed to move data around and building a DW on 2005. In some cases we are using the bulk loader to load and in some cases the tool itself.
One of the defaults of the tool is to truncate trailing blanks....and so fields that contain only blanks get truncated to a zero length character string.
When reloading the data with the tool it carries a null indicator next to the field value so the zero length character string is loaded as not null.
When loading with the bulk loader the dbas are telling me that the field is translated to a null. Note that they want some fields translated to null so they are using the keepnulls parameter.
On other databases (and built into the tool because this is so) the bulk loaders usually allow the specification of the load statement at column level and the specification of a 'null character sting' to be translated to null if this string is found. I put an example below.
I seem to recall that SQL Server 7 had some sort of bulk loader that allowed specification of columns at column level......for example offsets or whatever and the specification of fields to be interpreted as nulls. (Though that was a long time ago.)
I have searched through the manual and I don't see an option there any more to specify a character that will be interpreted to a null by the bulk loader.
Is it possible in 2005 to specify a character such that when the bulk loader sees it the field will be set to null?? And not just set fields to null which are not present in the load file?
(Just by the way, we are going to make the truncate trailing blanks optional and it's easy....it's just that I thought this kind of null if option was available in 2005 and I am keen to know if it is not there, either gone or never was...)
Thanks in Advance and Best Regards
Peter
Example of how Oracle does it...on page
http://www.csee.umbc.edu/help/oracle8/server.815/a67792/ch05.htm#5754 NULLIF Keyword Use the NULLIF keyword after the datatype and optional delimiter specification, followed by a condition. The condition has the same format as that specified for a WHEN clause. The column's value is set to null if the condition is true. Otherwise, the value remains unchanged. NULLIF field_condition
The NULLIF clause may refer to the column that contains it, as in the following example: COLUMN1 POSITION(11:17) CHAR NULLIF (COLUMN1 = "unknown")
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')
I'm using Script Component to load data into Oracle DB due to the poor performance issue. Now, I found it will missing some data during the transmission. Please see the screenshot below:Â
I am getting ErrorCode 8 while loading the data from stage to model. I have checked my error view it states that "Member Code is Inactive".
Initially I have loaded same set of data in Model from MDS Stage table but then deleted with ImportType = 5 which removed all the data from the MDM model.
Now i want to load it back but its giving the Error Code 8 .. Before loading the same data i have changed the stage table Importtype to 2 and Importstatusid to 0.
Hi, all experts here, Do we always have to use SCD component for the loading of data into data warehouse to handle changes of rows? I am looking forward to hearing from you and thank you very much in advance for your help. With best regards,
Hi i am trying to do a straight forward load from a Flatfile source , i have defined the columns according to the lenghts defined in the Data Dictionary Provided but when i am trying to run the Task i am encounterring this error
The column data for column "Column 20" overflowed the disk I/O buffer.
I tried to add another column 21 at the end and truncate or leave that column unmapped to destination but the same problem occurs for column 21 what should i do to over come this .
In case of Bad Data how to clean up the source.. Please help me with this
Hello!! searching information about how to migrate some date from an old data base (any tipe) from SQL I´v found this: LOAD DATA [LOW_PRIORITY | CONCURRENT] [LOCAL] INFILE 'file_name.txt' [REPLACE | IGNORE] INTO TABLE tbl_name [FIELDS [TERMINATED BY 'string'] [[OPTIONALLY] ENCLOSED BY 'char'] [ESCAPED BY 'char' ] ] [LINES [STARTING BY 'string'] [TERMINATED BY 'string'] ] [IGNORE number LINES] [(col_name_or_user_var,...)] [SET col_name = expr,...)] Does anybody know how does it works and how to use it????I´d like to know because I have to load data from a text file to a SQL Data Base and this seems to be te fastest an easiest way to do it...Thanks!!!!bye!
The project is a C/S data analysis system built with .Net 2.0 in windows environment, OS: Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 standard Edition Service Pack2, Database used in this project is: Sql server 2005. As a data analysis system, we need to load large amount of data from file to database, we do it by create a dts package and then do data loading by execute "m_Package.Execute(null, variables, m_PackageEvents, null, null)".
The problem is, we fount that DTS miss some data randomly sometimes, we can't find the rule till now. for example we've data as follows in data file, all data field splited by '|' 11234|26341|2007-09-03 00:00|0|0|0.0|0|0.011470833793282509|1|0.045497223734855652|0|0|1|0|3|2929|13130|43|0|2|0|0|40|1|0|0|0|0|0|1||0|0|3|0|0|0|0|0||0|3|0|0|43|43|0|41270|0|3|0|0|10|3|0|0|0|0|0||0|1912|0|0|3|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|3|0|0|5|0|40|0|9|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|29|1|1|24|24.0|16|16.0|0|0|0.0|0|0|24|23.980693817138672|0|0.0|0|0.0|0|0.0|0|0.0|11|2.0764460563659668|43|2|0|0|30|11|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|3|3|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|6|0|0|0|0|0|6|0|0|45|1|0|0|0|2|42|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|2|0|0|0|2|0|0|0|0|0|0|51|47|85|0|0|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|||||||||||||0|0|0|0|0|97.117401123046875|0|0|83|57|||0.011738888919353485|0|1|0.065955556929111481|0|4|||0.00026658669230528176|1|0.00014440112863667309|1|68|53|12|2|1|2.0562667846679688|10|94|2|0|0|30|11|47|4|13902|7024|6878|18|85|4.9072666168212891|5|0.0|0|0.0|0|0.0|0|0.0|0|358|6448|6324|0|0|0|0||0||462|967|0|41|39|2|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|3|0|0|3|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|3|0|3|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0.0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|46|0|1|0|1|37|0|0|46|0|1|0|1|37|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0.0|0|0|6|4|2|0|0|2|1|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0.0|0|1|0.012290795333683491|0|44|44.0|0|0.0|0|0|0|30|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|2|0|2|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|2|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|27|0|0|2112|411|411|45|437|2|0|2|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|4|0|4|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|6|6|0|3|2|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|5|5.0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|600|600|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|6|0|0|0|0|0|0|6|0|9|1|2|2|3|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|13|3|2|5|1|1|1|0|0|0|102|0|1|1|0|0|0|3|3|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0||||||0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0||||||0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0||0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0||||||||||0|0|0|0|0|0|0||||||||||0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0||0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0.0|46.0|46|0.0|0|0.0|0|0.011469460092484951|1|0.0|0|0.0|0|3|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0.0|0|0.0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|||0|100.0|100.0|0|1|0|1|0|0|0.02481505274772644|1|0.014951236546039581|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|||0|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|4695.5556640625|42260|7126.66650390625|62040|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0||||||||||0|0||||||||||
We found that some of the data field become 'null' after the load action finished, if we load the same data again, problem disappeared, we can't 100% reproduce this issue each time, we don't know why, Anybody here can help us to solve this issue or give us some clue?
In an effort to automate a process, I am trying to populate a csv textfile with data from a SQL Server 2000 database that will be imported by a proprietary database; however, not all of the data required to go into the textfile is available in the source db. Fortunately, the data I'm needing has constant values for the fields that I want to populate, i.e Lab Name. Whereas, the Destination database will receive data from other labs but not via this source. Is it possible to use a constant rather than a db field within the SQL query to populate one of the textfile fields. (I placed "LABNAME" in where I would like it to go) A portion of my present SQL statement is: Select LEFT([SAMPNAME], 4) AS IUNUM, RIGHT(LEFT([SAMPNAME], 8), 3) AS SITENUM, convert(varchar,[SAMPDATE], 112) as SAMPDATE, [BDL] AS "SAMPNUM", [ANALYTE], (CASE [STARTDATE]-[SAMPDATE] WHEN 0 THEN '2' ELSE '1' END) AS METHOD, convert(varchar,[STARTDATE], 112) as STARTDATE, [FINAL], [BDL], "LABNAME", [NOTES1], [SAMPLER], [ORDNO], [UNITS] From [CUSTOMER] As you can see, I have already done a lot of formatting within the statement but would appreciate someone's SQL expertise to tell me if using a constant is possible or not. Thanks, Al
how do i do in ssis if i want to read the textfile row by row? i need to do this since every line in my flat file has different conditions to fulfill depending on the content of the row.
I have a package which loads data from a flat file (csv) to 4 tables in a database. Now, the load is incremental.
I want to clear the data of all 4 tables(in the database) before loading the data from flat file everytime.How can i do this? Iam using 4 Oledb Destinations, 1 multicast, 1 source component to do this. Also can it happen like a transaction? because if it deletes the existing data and couldnt load new data there will be a problem!.how to avoid this?
I was wondering if there is a way to schedule a tast that will dump afixed width text file of all the new entries in a table. So if I hada table with likeusername - varchar(20)created - smalldatetimeI could get a weekly feed each week of all the new users in a textfile. I know I could write a script that would go through and do thisby looking at the time stamp, and the last time that the filepreviously ran and get the new dates but I was hoping there was abuilt way to do this. Or perhaps a more elegant solution.Thanks,Charlie
Hi, I am loading Data from Mainframe to SqlServer on WinNt. Normally it was taking 35 mts do the dts job. on last two days it runs for more then six hours still the job doesnt get over. I am at a loss to know what to do and how to fix this problem. THe main frame ppl said sqlServer is fetching the data very slowly. If anyone knows the solution pl post a solution
What is the best way to load large amounts of data? I am working on a project where I will need to load data into approx. 20 tables. Into several of the tables I will need to load around 400,000 records. I am familiar with the concepts involved in using BCP but was hoping I could avoid the step of going to text files. I am pulling data from Access (either 97 or 2000). Any suggestions would be welcome.
I have an xml file I want to use as the source. It's not overly complicated, but not simple either. It has one hierachy, and one optional field and looks like this
a
1 'text'
2 'text'
b
1 'text'
2 'text' 'optional field'
Ok, now I want the data to load like this:
a,1,text
a,2,text
b,1,text
b,2,text, optional field
but when I try to use the xml source it won't create the xsd...anything I can do?
I am trying to enhance an existing package that actually does the xml to table load, this packge is using a script component to parse and load the xml file into multiple tables (3 tables) using VB.net code, I want to add a component to it where if there are any xml rows that are erroring out , they get redirected to a different table, this log table is having only one column and the xml records are supposed to be loaded into this column in XML format. this is the existing design and I have to live with it and at the same time I am not a big .net coder, any help is appreciated.
Hi, I wish to export a MS SQL table into a text file. I know that I can do this under the DTS wizard but I need the syntax so as to run in on my script. Can anyone help? Thanks!
when i run this it says "The command(s) completed successfully." but i don't see that file anywhere at all. why is that? is this the right way to do? please help.