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DTS Bulk Insert

  • March 24, 2005 at 1:57 pm

    #60003

    I am creating a package that downloads a file from an ftp site.  I then want to import that file to a table.  The file is a comma delimited text file.  The first row is the field names, then data, the last row is the date the file was created and a count of how many records were downloaded.  I can get it to not import the first row by setting the first row to 2.  Since the amount of rows in this file could vary I don't know what to put for the last row.

    Is there a way to set the Bulk Insert up to not insert the last row?

    Thanks.

  • March 24, 2005 at 2:02 pm

    #548849

    Roberta,

    I do something like this to get a count of valid lines:

      SET oFile = oFS.OpenTextFile(filename)

     

      iLastRow = 0

      DO UNTIL oFile.AtEndOfStream

       sString = oFile.ReadLine

         iLastRow = iLastRow + 1 

      LOOP

     

  • March 24, 2005 at 2:12 pm

    #548853

    I am new at doing DTS packages and I was just using enterprise manager and tried to create a Bulk insert task.  I was wondering if there was a way to do it there without code.

    Thanks for showing me the way to do it in code.

     

  • March 28, 2005 at 9:08 am

    #549138

    You're looking for the BCP application. Fairly simple when you learn the parameters. Just google for "SQL BCP"

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