I am trying to use bulk insert for a .txt file, which is separated using a comma, but a few columns also have a double quotes, because of which when bulk insert is used, some rows are not inserted properly.
Also, I have to use bulk insert and not import/export functionality since I am automating my process of inserting the values in the table.
Here is the sample data: test.txt
ID, Date, Phone, Name
1,12/31/2017,"7415236541","Name1"
2,12/31/2017,"8524123652","Name2"
3,12/31/2017,"9853214536","Name2"
I use the following code, but it does not help
BULK INSERT xImportTable
FROM 'C:\Files\CSV\test.csv'
WITH
( FIRSTROW = 2,
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
)
But this code does not remove the double quotes.
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Please help. This is the Bulk insert code to insert Employee data into SQL server 2019.The data is being inserted. but still with quotes. How to insert data without quotes?
Please let me know what wrong AM' I doing?
BULK INSERT dbo.tblActiveDirData
FROM 'E:\EmployeeData\ATadUserlistDB.csv'
WITH
(
DATAFILETYPE = 'char',
FIRSTROW = 2,
FIELDTERMINATOR= ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
)
This worked:
BULK INSERT Test_CSV
FROM 'C:\MyCSV.csv'
WITH ( FORMAT='CSV');
No other other code with field terminator, datafiletype was needed
I'm wanting to import a CSV file which has some values as such:
123;456;"78;9";1011
Simply said, there are some quotes in a value, but the value is within double quotes. When I use a bulk import, the value '"78' is put into one column, whereas '9"' is put into the next column. How can I prevent this?
I am using below query:
BULK INSERT CSVTest
FROM 'c:\csvtest.csv'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ';',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
)
GO
I'm using SQL Server!
In a test environment i've setup the new sql server, and the fieldquote seems to be ignored in the statement, and the fields are still split up. What am I doing wrong? I'm doing:
BULK INSERT CSVTest
FROM 'c:\csvtest.csv'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ';',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n',
FIELDQUOTE='"'
)
GO
I make an ASP.NET application and I want to insert data into my SQL Server from a CSV file. I did it with this SQL command:
BULK
INSERT Shops
FROM 'C:\..\file.csv'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ';',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
);
It pretty works but I have an id columns with AUTO INCREMENT option. I want to reorder inserted columns to SQL server increment automatiquely Id column.
How can I do that with BULK method?
(of course, I don't want to edit .csv file manualy :P )
Like I said in my comment: You can't, bulk insert just pumps data in, you can't transform the data in any way. What you can do is bulk insert to staging table(s) and use an insert statement to do what you need to do.
You can do it like this:
-- Create staging table
SELECT TOP 0 *
INTO Shops_temp
FROM Shops;
-- Bulk insert into staging
BULK INSERT Shops_temp
FROM 'C:\..\file.csv'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ';',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
);
-- Insert into actual table, use SELECT for transformation, column order etc.
INSERT INTO Shops(name, etc..)
SELECT name
, etc..
FROM Shops_temp;
-- Cleanup
DROP TABLE Shops_temp;
I am trying to get data from a csv file with the following data.
Station code;DateBegin;DateEnd
01;20100214;20100214
02;20100214;20100214
03;20100214;20100214
I am trying bulk insert as
BULK INSERT dbo.#tmp_station_details
FROM 'C:\station.csv'
WITH (
FIELDTERMINATOR ='';'',
FIRSTROW = 2,
ROWTERMINATOR = ''\n''
)
But the table tmp_station_details has one extra column as Priority.
Its schema is like
[Station code] [Priority] [DateBegin] [DateEnd]
Now is this possible to bulk insert without altering the schema of the table.
Add FORMATFILE = 'format_file_path' to your "with" block. Refer to BOL: using a format file to skip a table column for an example.
I have a CSV file, which contains three dates:
'2010-07-01','2010-08-05','2010-09-04'
When I try to bulk insert them...
BULK INSERT [dbo].[STUDY]
FROM 'StudyTable.csv'
WITH
(
MAXERRORS = 0,
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
)
I get an error:
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 1, column 1 (CREATED_ON).
So I'm assuming this is because I have an invalid date format. What is the correct format to use?
EDIT
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[STUDY]
(
[CREATED_ON] DATE,
[COMPLETED_ON] DATE,
[AUTHORIZED_ON] DATE,
}
You've got quotes (') around your dates. Remove those and it should work.
Does your data file have a header record? If it does, obviously your table names will not be the correct data type, and will fail when SQL Server tries to INSERT them into your table. Try this:
BULK INSERT [dbo].[STUDY]
FROM 'StudyTable.csv'
WITH
(
MAXERRORS = 0,
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n',
FIRSTROW = 2
)
According to MSDN the BULK INSERT operation technically doesn't support skipping header records in the CSV file. You can either remove the header record or try the above. I don't have SQL Server in front of me at the moment, so I have not confirmed this works. YMMV.