I have portions of data coming in as text files containing new records and updates of existing records. The solution I've figured out till yet is to import a portion of data into some intermediate table and then run a stored procedure to migrate the data into the real table.
Any ideas how to do this in a more efficient way?
Thanks in advance,
Asnate
Hi All,I'm not that great with MS-SQL, as I never really have any occasion touse it. However, I need to get this one thing working and don't havea clue where to start.I have a comma-delimited file that's delivered to the server everynight that contains updates to one of the tables. I'm trying tocreate a DTS package that will read in the text file and update all ofthe records contained in it, rather than simply append them to thebottom of the table (resulting in duplicate entries).I know how to schedule it and such, but if anyone can give me sometips on the design of the DTS package, it would be much appreciated.Thanks!- Steve Osit
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to update a SQL table using an excel file which has 2 columns FMStyle and FMHSNum.
FMStyle is my link to the SQL table.
Here is what I have for code....
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Update DataTEST.dbo.zzxstylr
SET hs_num = (select FMHSNum FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0', 'Excel 12.0;Database=c: empStyleHSCodesLoad.xls;HDR=YES ', [Sheet1$]))
Where FMStyle = zzxstylr.style
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Everything seems to be ok except for the "Where FMStyle" is giving me a message Invalid Column name on FMStyle. Do I need to qualify FMStyle and if so how.
Hello,
I have an access database (access 95 Version7)dumping a delimited text file onto my server. I am then using DTS in SQL 2000 to import the file into a table.
My issue is that each time the DTS runs, it imports the whole text file each time, this is causing duplicate records.
So I created a transformation script as follows :
Function Main()
If DTSSource("counter") <= DTSDestination("counter") Then
Main = DTSTransformStat_SkipRow
Else
DTSDestination("counter") = DTSSource("counter")
DTSDestination("serialdata") = DTSSource("serialdata")
DTSDestination("serialdata1") = DTSSource("serialdata1")
DTSDestination("date") = DTSSource("date")
DTSDestination("time") = DTSSource("time")
Main = DTSTransformStat_OK
End If
End Function
The theory behind the If statement, is if it sees that the counter field is less than or equal to what is there, it will skip the record and move forward. For some reason this is not working.
Does anyone have a workaround or another solution to this problem
I am familiar with the MySQL Load Data command to load an external ascii file into a database table, but am having trouble finding a T-Sql command that is equivalent without creating an executable...any help would be appreciated...
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I am trying to export a text file to a table using enterprise manager
and all tasks
But the process keeps adding strange charater like squares at the end
of each line and also replaces each empty line in the text file with a record in the table with that square type character. I used the following code to delete all rows with that character (as a work around) but no joy. I am losing hope.
Code is
DELETE FROM table1
WHERE column1 = ' '
How to convert a SQL table into Text file? I have a table and I want to extract the values with the field names above to a text file. The query should also allow me to define the starting position of the fields in the text file.
email: vijay.prasad@in.ibm.com
Hello:
I want to copy one table not whole database to text file. How to do it? Using DTS could not allow me to select the specific table.
Thanks,
Snow:rolleyes:
I do have a comma separated text file.
"firstname","lastname","ssn","dob"
"firstname1","lastname1","ssn1","dob1"
The text file can have 50000 records. What is the best way to upload the file into a table. The table structure looks like:
Table1:
Fname varchar(50)
lname varchar(50)
ssn varchar(50)
dob varchar(50)
Any thoughts???
Is there an example anywhere of how to output selected fields in a sql table to a text file with fixed length fields. ie pad data out to required length.
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REPORT ON xxxx cs PREVIOUS DAY
-
PREV REP
LOAN # BORROWER STAT STAT APP DATE INITIAL ORD DT LOANAMT CLIENTNAME
0 0123454681 xxxx, xxxxxxxxxx 10 9 06/04/05 abc 060418 $310,000.00 ABC temp plus
1 $310,000.00
0523468431 xxxxx, xxxxx xx 14 13 06/04/04 efg 060418 $127,120.00 cAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC
1 $127,120.00
0542616443 xxxxx, xxxx xxxxxx 14 13 05/12/01 hij 060418 $200,000.00 fRIENDS CLUB
1 $200,000.00
0516545461 xxxxx, xxxxxxxx x 205 204 06/03/02 klm 060418 $283,992.00 MICROTECH TECHNOLOGY
0135554455 xxxxx, xxxxx xx 115 114 06/04/04 060418 $230,000.00 ABC TEMP PLUS
2 $513,992.00
0151981313 xxxxxxxx, xxxx xxxxxx 205 204 06/04/05 nop 060418 $80,000.00 INTERNAL REFERRAL
1 $80,000.00
0111111111 xxxxx, xxxxx 115 114 06/03/05 qrs 060418 $86,800.00 gMA INC
0222222222 xxxx, xxxxxxxxxx 115 114 06/04/03 060418 $156,720.00 INTERNAL
0333333333 xxxxx, xxxxxx 205 204 06/04/03 060418 $156,720.00 HOME
3 $400,240.00
TOTAL 9 $8,005,672.00
1 abc351Uab:cod5K-SUM
-
5a
INITIAL COUNT
0 ABC 1
EFG 1
HIJ 1
KLM 2
NOP 1
QRS 3
How can I load the above txt file into a table with following schema?
Loan(BorrowerName, Loan#)
All I need is the borrower name which are xxxxx, xxxx and loan numbers.
Hello
I am writing program in VC++ through SQl-DMO calls.My problem is when i when i tranfer(import) a text file(comma seperated) into SQl server through a SQl-DMO method called ImportData which is a method of Bulk copy object.Its is not able to convert the data field in the text file to corresponding value datetime in SQl server whereas other data types are working perfectly.
This is the record i need to convert:
90,MichaelB,Wintriss,Inspection,Paper,11,Job101,1, {ts '2000-12-10 15:54:56.000'},D:public233 and 247233.mcs,
and this is the date field
{ts '2000-12-10 15:54:56.000'}
Whereas if i export a table in SQl server in Binary mode and then import the file back it works but when do it as text it gives the above error
Pls help me in this i would be very thankful to you.
Note: I am using SQL Server 7.0 version
Regards
Jitender Singh
I need to export data from a table to a text file, where the data in the table is deleted after written to the file. It is simple using DTS, but I want to do the export in "chunks" of data, committing the delete say after every 1000 rows.
My thought was a stored procedure would be easy enough to do this (done these in Oracle many times), but I don't know the quickest way to export a row of data from a stored procedure to a text file. Isn't using a command-line shell too slow? What are my options?
I have an assignment and need to dosomething that should be simple, basically output the contents of a table to a text file.
I have been trying this syntax:
bcp "dbo.items_with_constraints_tbl" out "J:items.txt" -c
But I keep on getting this error message:
Server: Msg 179, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Cannot use the OUTPUT option when passing a constant to a stored procedure.
I am completely lost!! :confused:
Can anyone help me please?
Hello everyone:
I create a temperal table to load data in a stored procedure. At last I want to export this temp table to a text file.
Any suggestion will be great appreciated.
ZYT
Hey guys,
I have a dilemma and hope someone can help.
I don't know of any utilities or commands in SQL that do this but I hope someone does.
What I need to do is something like a bcp import a text file in. I can do that with DTS as well. But what I wanted to do is create a table on the import. So lets say, I am importing a tab-delimited file with column names as the first row that is called ax.txt. On import, it would create the table ax with the column names in the file and then import the data into that table.
I hope I explained it clearly. Please let me know if there is anything I can use to do this without writing lots of code.
I have an idea how to do it the long way but hope there is a utility that already does it.
Thanks in advance.
Hi. my websever mysql manager allows to Insert data from a text file into the table.
currently i have a table with the following fields.
email name country
so i wanto insers data from a text file into this table.
so my question is : how the text file format should be prepared.
i.e. the first record would be > xxxx@yahoo.com john us
hi
I am very very new to sql server 2005.I want to create SSIS package for my text file to transfer in table.How i do this and where i will get that SSIS package (like in sql server 2000 we get that in EM under DTS) and how do i schedule these packages.
Please guide me.
Thanks
How do i use sqlcmd to export the rows in a table to a comma-delimited text file?
Thanks,
Sean
Dear MSSQL- experts,I have a strange problem with SQLSERVER 2000.I tried to export a table of about 40000 lines into a text file usingthe Enterprise managerexport assitant. I was astonished to get an exported text file of about400 MB instead 16 MB which is the normal size of that data.By examining this file with a text editor I found that the fileincluded alongside the data of my table MANY zeros which caused the bigfile size.Does someone of you have an idea what could cause the export oftrillions zeros into my textfile and how to only export the significantdata of my table ?Best regards,Daniel
View 3 Replies View RelatedHi Guys,
What approach should I use to copy content of a text file.
Example of the text file's content:
Date, "20060101"
ST_Code, "101"
A_Code, P_Code, T_Code, amount, price
"0001", "1111", "0101", 550, 230
"0002", "1111", "0102", 345, 122
"2001", 0212", 0930", 410, 90
In the example above, I just want to copy the rows Date, "20060101" and ST_Code, "101" into a table.
Regards,
Lars
Hi,
Could you help me to write a script to import a CSV delimited text file into a sql server table.?
Thanks,
carlos
Greetings all!
I am a relative newbie to SQL but I've written many queries for vb.net/.net code...I'm not an absolute beginner.
I'd like to import a text file into a sql database so that I can use SQL Reporting Services to report on the data. Here is a sample of the first 8 textfile records. All of the 6 potential database fields are separated by a comma and no spaces:
1,12/4/06 4:12:11 PM,67.13,70.50,71.56,8.23
2,12/4/06 4:17:11 PM,67.13,70.50,71.56,8.33
3,12/4/06 4:22:11 PM,67.19,70.69,71.69,8.19
4,12/4/06 4:27:11 PM,67.19,70.63,71.69,8.18
5,12/4/06 4:32:11 PM,67.19,70.69,71.75,8.05
6,12/4/06 4:37:11 PM,67.19,70.69,71.69,8.03
7,12/4/06 4:42:11 PM,67.19,70.63,71.69,8.05
8,12/4/06 4:47:11 PM,67.19,70.63,71.63,8.02
The description for field datatypes of the first record above is:
1 (this is an autonumber, should be a number for ordering)
12/4/06 4:12:11 PM (date and time, can be converted to text if necessay)
67.13 (number, 2 decimal spaces)
70.50 (number, 2 decimal spaces)
71.56 (number, 2 decimal spaces)
8.23 (number, 2 decimal spaces)
The textfile is big, 97K records. I have SQL 2005 installed on my PC.
Can anyone out there please help me with the import or SQL statement to create a SQL table from this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks and have a great day - gad1
Hello,
I have an application taht requires the use of a table. The device that this application works on, has a local memory that does not allow me to insert the 800,000 records that I need. Therefore I have two approaches:
1. To insert less records into my local memory database e.g 40,000 but not row by row, bulk insert is better. How do I do the bulk insert?
2. This is the most prefferable way: To find a way to insert all 800,000 records into a table on the storage card which is 1GB. What do you suggest? Will using threads be helpfull? Any ideas?
I use C# from VS 2005, SQL ME, compact framework 2.0 and windows 4.2.
Thanks in advance,
John.
I am very new to SQL Server 2005. I have created a package to load data from a flat delimited file to a database table. The initial load has worked. However, in the future, I will have flat files used to update the table. Some of the records will need to be inserted and some will need to update existing rows. I am trying to do this from SSIS. However, I am very lost as to how to do this.
Any suggestions?
hi guys
i need to import text file to sql table in sql server 2005 ...using query how do i import text file to sql table .......................
i need query
i dont want go Import/export options
Hi,
I'm trying to export data from one of the table in my SQL 7.0 database into text file. Can someone tell me how can i do this using SQL Query instead of using BCP (command line) ?? Thank you in advance.
Jitender Singh at 12/15/00 3:41:02 PM
Hello
I am writing program in VC++ through SQl-DMO calls.My problem is when i when i tranfer(import) a text file(comma seperated) into SQl server through a SQl-DMO method called ImportData which is a method of Bulk copy object.Its is not able to convert the data field in the text file to corresponding value datetime in SQl server whereas other data types are working perfectly.
This is the record i need to convert:
90,MichaelB,Wintriss,Inspection,Paper,11,Job101,1, {ts '2000-12-10 15:54:56.000'},D:public233 and 247233.mcs,
There are about 1000 records like this .the text file is generated by SQl when i export data from Sql server tables.This file has lot of records.Now i need to put the record in the text file into SQl server tables.During which when i pass the text file it gives problem in converting date and time value.I cannot remove the bracket and ts as ,{ts '2000-12-10 15:54:56.000'} it generated by SQl server tables
and this is the date field
{ts '2000-12-10 15:54:56.000'}
Whereas if i export a table in SQl server in Binary mode and then import the file back it works but when do it as text it gives the above error
Pls help me in this i would be very thankful to you.
Note: I am using SQL Server 7.0 version
Regards
Jitender Singh
I needs export data on table to text file so I can process this data
with another database engine ie. Informix.
Can anybody help me to solve this problem ?
I have a text file I am trying to import to a table. This text file is in a tab delimited format. I am using DTS to import the data to a new table I made. The fields are varchar and are set to allow nulls & allow 8,000 characters per field.
The error I am getting is that the data exceeds the allowed amount (or something like that) in col4.
Now I have checked everything in column 4 and nothing exceeds 5,000 spaces/characters combined. I have checked the entire sheet (in excel) for that fact, and there is not one single column/row/cell that exceeds 5,000 spaces/characters combined.
What the heck could be causing SQL to tell me I am trying to import too much data in one column when there is nothing that even comes close to 8,000 characters & spaces combined?
I am trying my first bulk update to an existing SWL table from a CSV text file,The text file naming is exacrtly the same as the SQL table, with the same attributes
The statements:
BULK INSERT [Jedox_prod].[dbo].[B_BP_Customer]
FROM 'c:Baanjedox_dailyjdcom4401.txt'
WITH
[code]....
The error message is:
[size=1Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 2, column 3 (BP_Country).
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)".size=1]..The have checked and re-checked the BP_Country field ( the 1st field after the key) and I am not seeing any mismatches.
hi my friends
i want read data from text file,and write to my table in sql,
please help me
M.O.H.I.N
help,a regular text file how to sql 2000 table code ?i have a text file as follow, line with ¡°|¡±and {LF},8|-000000186075919.|+000000000387820.|2008-03-31|20010423|9|-000000000003919.|-000000000123620.|2008-03-31|20010123|8|-000000018623419.|+000000000381230.|2008-05-30|20010423|i want to sign char(1)£¬year decimal(18,3) , month decimal(18,3), trandatesmalldatetime£¬update smalldatetime£¬after to sql table is as follow,sign year month trandate update8 -186075919.000 387820.000 3/31/2008 4/23/20019 -3919.000 -123620.000 3/31/2008 1/1/20018 -18623419.000 387820.000 5/30/2008 4/23/2001could you help me how write the sql code ?
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