Comments on: SQL SERVER – Importing CSV File Into Database – SQL in Sixty Seconds #018 – Video

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:51:15 +0000

Great post. How can I load a file if I don’t have the name just the directory it suppose to be in?

By: Alexandru Metzak

Alexandru Metzak — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:43:55 +0000

it’s the file on the same server as the db?

By: James McDaniel

James McDaniel — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:43:49 +0000

I am using:
BULK INSERT mdb_cleanse.dbo.[@repository employee list]
FROM ‘C:\Users\fa01jjm\Documents\SQL Server Management Studio\Projects\Run Queries\Employee_List.csv’
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ‘,’,
ROWTERMINATOR = ‘\n’
)

I get an error saying the OS cannot find the path specified

By: nitnit

nitnit — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:53:36 +0000

thanks! that was very helpful!

By: brij

brij — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:50:39 +0000

$value) $data[$key] = addslashes($data[$key]);
$con = mysql_connect($server,$DBusername,$DBpassword);
mysql_select_db($database, $con);
//mysql_connect($server, $DBusername, $DBpassword) or die (“$DatabaseError 54″);
echo $query = mysql_query(“INSERT INTO $tablename (

`name`,
`text`
)
VALUES(‘$data[0]‘, ‘$data[1]‘)”);
$result = mysql_query($query);

}

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:51:38 +0000

I am getting below error.

The OLE DB provider “BULK” for linked server “(null)” reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.

By: April

April — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:47:29 +0000

What would be really useful is a script that created the table and imported the data to that table. This seems quite tedious. For example, why would I go through all of the trouble creating the table, then creating a script identifying the table headers then importing all of the data.

What I would like to see here is a REAL USEFUL import CSV file, taking the first line as the header (Don’t forget to add the record Numbers Incremental) and then adding the data to those headers. Can this be done?

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By: MAW74656

MAW74656 — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:29:24 +0000

How about a quick video on simplest way to convert a user defined function into a script for testing purposes?

By: Ajith Nair

Ajith Nair — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:42:02 +0000

Brad has a point there. Microsoft’s parser is quite error-prone. Asu, I would advice that you write a CSV parser in whatever platform you’re developing. It’s quite easy. For a .Net example, see: http://pastebin.com/vZgpGNEG

By: Asu

Asu — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 04:28:09 +0000

I have arround 16 crores of records in 16 csv files each having 1 crores of records. It is all about TRAI registred Mobile number and some other information.
I am using Mysql and Sql server also.

I am using bulk insert but it is too slow.

How efficiently I can upload and also Update new date for each week.(update twice in a week)

Please advice.

By: Brad Purton

Brad Purton — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 03:46:13 +0000

It may be simple here, but how often is it this simple in the real world with large datasets where data is missing, implicit casts fail etc.?