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BULK insert problem

  • July 30, 2009 at 9:23 am

    #97864

    Hello,

    I have a proplem with BULK in stored procedures.

    I want to do a BULK from a file (.CSV) wich name changes every day. So I have an attribute “@FileName” in order to change the name every single day.

    BULK INSERT dbo.TableName

    FROM @FileName

    WITH ( FIELDTERMINATOR=’;', ROWTERMINATOR=’\’)

    But it gives me an error telling that there’s a sintax error after FROM. I have tried with all kind of punctuation (’,”,`,´,+)

    It would be gratefull if some one could answer to my question.

    Thanks in advance

  • July 30, 2009 at 10:12 am

    #1032502

    saved in my snippets: bulk insert will not accept a variable, so you need to use the EXEC command instead:

    --bulk insert won't take a variable name, so make a sql and execute it instead:

    set @sql = 'BULK INSERT BULKACT FROM ''' + @path + @filename + ''' '

    + ' WITH (

    DATAFILETYPE = ''char'',

    FIELDTERMINATOR = '','',

    ROWTERMINATOR = '''',

    FIRSTROW = 2

    ) '

    print @sql

    exec (@sql)

    Lowell

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