Need help to read text file

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Need help to read text file

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March 19, 2013 at 6:49 am

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Hi,
My text file as attachment ~ AG-Persekutuan-Bln-09-2012.txt
How to read this file as follows,
1. Taxpayer data starting in the second row
2. The 1st TaxPayer read as follows,
SUBSTRING('02029105500000326272560816105987 Samat Bin Sani 0000015004363 ',21,6) +
'-' +
SUBSTRING('02029105500000326272560816105987 Samat Bin Sani 0000015004363 ',27,2) +
'-' +
SUBSTRING('02029105500000326272560816105987 Samat Bin Sani 0000015004363 ',29,4) as newIdx,
SUBSTRING('02029105500000326272560816105987 Samat Bin Sani 0000015004363 ',52,40) as myName
3. The 2nd TaxPayer read as follows,
SUBSTRING('02011105700000488437551130055335 Jalaludin Bin Jalil 0000025004363 ',21,6) +
'-' +
SUBSTRING('02011105700000488437551130055335 Jalaludin Bin Jalil 0000025004363 ',27,2) +
'-' +
SUBSTRING('02011105700000488437551130055335 Jalaludin Bin Jalil 0000025004363 ',29,4) as newIdx,
SUBSTRING('02011105700000488437551130055335 Jalaludin Bin Jalil 0000025004363 ',52,40) as myName
4. And the next reading as like above
5. After all the content is read, the result as follow
560816-10-5987 SAMAT BIN SANI
551130-05-5335 JALALUDIN BIN JALIL
590826-05-5028 MUKARRAMAH BT IBRAHIM
550317-05-5242 FATIMAH BT ISMAIL
540301-04-5163 ABU MANSOR BIN HJ MOHD NOR
It's possible SQL Server 2008 R2 read text file? If yes, I really need help. Please help me. I'm stuck

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 1

Probably the easiest way to import this type of thing is with SSIS. Check out the stairways series here. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairway/72494/[/url]

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Sean Lange (3/19/2013)
Probably the easiest way to import this type of thing is with SSIS. Check out the stairways series here. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairway/72494/[/url]

tq sir.

Just have a look the SSIS. My question is, how SSIS import text file, and extract the record based on substring as above?

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 3

Did you look at the link?

The second article talks about imports: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Integration+Services+(SSIS)/72493/

When you do the import, you'll need to then separate out the various parts of the data. This isn't a simple quick thing to answer. What is probably easiest for you is to use the Import Wizard and import to a staging table. Then use T-SQL to separate out the rows.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms140052.aspx

Qira SSCommitted Points: 1930 More actions · Answer 4

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/19/2013)
Did you look at the link?
The second article talks about imports: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Integration+Services+(SSIS)/72493/
When you do the import, you'll need to then separate out the various parts of the data. This isn't a simple quick thing to answer. What is probably easiest for you is to use the Import Wizard and import to a staging table. Then use T-SQL to separate out the rows.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms140052.aspx

Tq sir. Dont angry with me sir. 😛

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 5

Not angry, just asking. From your next question, it didn't appear you had actually looked at SSIS.

We are happy to help, and point you in the right direction, but we're not here to do your work or explain everything in great detail. We expect you to take our advice and information, do some research and testing on your own.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004343 More actions · Answer 6

idyana (3/19/2013)
Hi,
My text file as attachment ~ AG-Persekutuan-Bln-09-2012.txt
How to read this file as follows,
1. Taxpayer data starting in the second row
2. The 1st TaxPayer read as follows,

WHOA! Hold the phone and back the privacy truck up! Are these REAL taxpayer numbers? If so, please go back and drop the text file attachment and delete the entries from your post!

Then find the person that's setting up these files with the information in clear-text and report them! This is SO wrong if these are real.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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