Im seriously in need of help, ive looked into many options including dts and bcp but ive not had any joy.

my txt file is formated in the following way
|fname1|,|26/02/03|,|lname1|
|fname2|,|26/02/03|,|lname2|
|fname3|,|27/02/03|,|lname3|

and so on…

Ive tried the following but the data is not being added correctly. I dont want to search and replace stuff in the file becuase i have 100’s of files with 10,000’s rows to deal with. Please help.

thanks.
D

BULK
INSERT tblTest
FROM ‘c:\Feb03Names.txt’
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ‘|’,
ROWTERMINATOR = ‘|\n’
)

The following is what gets stored in the db when running the above code.
ID Name RegDate Lname
1 fname1 , 26/02/03|,|lname1
2 fname2 , 26/02/03|,|lname2
3 fname3 , 27/02/03|,|lname3|

Im seriously in need of help, ive looked into many options including dts and bcp but ive not had any joy

It converts the characters “ş,Ş,ç,Ç,ö,Ö,ü,Ü,ğ,Ğ,ı,İ” to unreadable characters. How can I solve it?

PLS REPLY

THANKS
HASMUKH JAIN

prabu

Tq.

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

Above code works.. and this is exactly what i was searching for…

how to store text file in oracle 8i………..

so your @filename on the bulk insert would look something like

\\\\filename.csv OR filename.txt

BULK INSERT does not work for excel files.

You have to save EXCEL file as CSV and then use it with the
bulk insert sql command.

PS:There is another option to use OPENROWSET to upload excel sheet data as follows:

select * from
OPENROWSET(‘Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0′, ‘Excel 8.0;Database=c:\’, ‘SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]‘)

BUT for which you need to have Microsoft.Jet.OLDEDB correctly
installed & all drivers in OK status, else it fails.

Hope it helps.

If I execute the below query
BULK INSERT InsertTest
FROM ‘D:\Test.txt’
WITH ( FormatFile=’D:\Test.fmt’)
Getting error as

Msg 4832, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Bulk load: An unexpected end of file was encountered in the data file.
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)”.

Can you help me out how to solve this?

Regards,
Anitha

I am also SQL Server DBA professional since last 4 years and before that i have worked as a SQL developper cum Database Analyst also using .Net 2.0 Frame work For Web & Consol based Application and VB 6.0 for Window based application.

Thanks for your articles, As your faster way to writing your articles sometimes you have to do mistakes like

–Drop the table to clean up database.
SELECT *
FROM CSVTest
GO

Inyour image file seems fine

Go

DROP TABLE CSVTest
–Drop the table to clean up database.
GO

I think you have need to have a look once of all your articles.

Regards,
Rajiv Singh

Awesome suggestion. I was having the same issue as Krishna and forgot that I had SQL server installed to a different box.

Thanks,

Justin

Please make sure file is on the same PC where SQL server is installed, not on client location.

Thanks,

Tejas

Please help me
Iam using sql server 2005,..I want to do a similar operation..

I have my file in C:\Test.txt. Also I create the table in my DB.

BULK INSERT CSVTest
FROM ‘c:\Test.txt’
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ‘\t’,
ROWTERMINATOR = ‘\n’
)
GO

When I run this …am getting error saying…

Cannot bulk load. The file “c:\Test.txt” does not exist.

infact, I have the file given in the path.

Thanks,

Krishna

Do you have some sample code for me? I searched all along the internet but I couldn’t find any good sample code.

Thank you very much

Johan