I am facing the follwing problem while doing a bulk import from an Excel file to SQl Server 2005. Let’s say we have an excel file with columns ‘int a’ and ‘xyz int abc’ without the quotes. While doing Bulk Insert the data in the first column which has a keyword ‘int’ at the start does not get inserted but the second column data gets inserted where the keyword is in the middle. How can I resolve the issue? The excel file is an auto generated file from another system and the column name cannot be changed in the excel.

BULK
INSERT Project
FROM ‘C:\mine\project.txt’
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ‘,’,
ROWTERMINATOR = ‘\n’
)
GO

The error msg said The file “C:\mine\project1.txt” does not exist.

Is this because of the extra folder on C drive? I can’t access the root C drive.

thanks
Jack

6119039935,61190,5,Chaitanya Ravuri,United Kingdom
4155039958,41550,5,Darshan Shinde,United Kingdom
53649739917,536497,6,Nagasubramanian Natarajan,South Africa

As i am trying to upload the above data in the table, but i am getting an error.

The commands which i used

BULK
INSERT desk
FROM ‘c:\testing.txt’
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ‘,’
)
GO

Error
(Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 13, column 2 (empid).
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 19, column 2 (empid).
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Line 1)

please help in resolving the the same

where fields are seperated by vommas, but there are commas within fields as well e.g. address, last name, and some fields have quotations around them but some don’t.

Thanks a lot.

You have said that “If there is any error in any row it will be not inserted but other rows will be inserted.” ,

Is there any way to know which of the rows have encountered conflict and are not inserted?

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I have products table with 9 columns with 50000 rows
CSV only has 4 columns and 40000 rows
I want to update the product table with importing the CSV
i don’t have the product_id in the CSV but i have another Unique Column which is Part Number
Can I do that
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Phpmyadmin

Bulk insert data conversion error (type mismatch) for row 1, column 1 (ID).
Can u help me.
Regards
Amul

And My format file
10.0
5
1 SQLCHAR 0 12 “,” 1 MODELID “”
2 SQLCHAR 0 12 “,” 2 SOPID “”
3 SQLCHAR 0 12 “,” 3 STEPID “”
4 SQLCHAR 0 12 “,” 4 LABEL “”
5 SQLCHAR 0 0 “,” 5 DESC SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS

However, when I bulk insert into SQL server 2008, I got the following error.

Any idea? Thanks
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Server localpc\SQLEXPRESS, Line 3
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the spec
ified codepage) for row 2, column 4 (LABEL).
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Server localpc\SQLEXPRESS, Line 3
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the spec
ified codepage) for row 3, column 3 (STEPID).
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Server localpc\SQLEXPRESS, Line 3
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the spec
ified codepage) for row 4, column 2 (SOPID).
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Server localpc\SQLEXPRESS, Line 3
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the spec
ified codepage) for row 5, column 1 (MODELID).
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Server localpc\SQLEXPRESS, Line 3
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the spec
ified codepage) for row 6, column 4 (LABEL).
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Server localpc\SQLEXPRESS, Line 3
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the spec
ified codepage) for row 7, column 1 (MODELID).
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Server localpc\SQLEXPRESS, Line 3
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the spec
ified codepage) for row 8, column 1 (MODELID).
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Server localpc\SQLEXPRESS, Line 3
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the spec
ified codepage) for row 9, column 1 (MODELID).
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Server localpc\SQLEXPRESS, Line 3
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the spec
ified codepage) for row 10, column 4 (LABEL).
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Server localpc\SQLEXPRESS, Line 3
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the spec
ified codepage) for row 11, column 1 (MODELID).
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Server localpc\SQLEXPRESS, Line 3
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the spec
ified codepage) for row 12, column 1 (MODELID).
Msg 4865, Level 16, State 1, Server localpc\SQLEXPRESS, Line 3
Cannot bulk load because the maximum number of errors (10) was exceeded.
Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Server localpc\SQLEXPRESS, Line 3
The OLE DB provider “BULK” for linked server “(null)” reported an error. The pro
vider did not give any information about the error.
Msg 7330, Level 16, State 2, Server localpc\SQLEXPRESS, Line 3

Use the second method which uses openrowset function and limit it to first row by using top operator;create a table based on those columns dynamically;Do bulk insert by setting first_row=1

I think you did not get my problem. My CSV file starts with say
Cust_ID, Cust_Name, Cust_Address, Cust_Phone, etc…..
and then from 2nd row onwards the actual data of these columns starts.
Now my problem is that I want to get the first row of this file e.g. Cust_ID, Cust_name, Cust_Address……Create a temp table of these columns and then do the BULK Insert of the values of these columns (i.e. from 2nd row onwards)

As suggested by you I cannot do the BULK Insert by keeping option as first_row and last_row as 1. It will give me conversion error.

In Oracle we have functions like utl_file.fopen, utl_file.get_line, etc…Likewise what do we have in SQL Server 2005?

Hope you understood my problem….

Thanks…