using bulk insert

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using bulk insert

crprajan

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September 13, 2007 at 12:22 am

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Hi friends,
I have a text file having three columns with values. Using Bulk Insert i need to skip the 2nd column values while doing the bulk insert and work with the 1st and 3rd column. This is my project requirement. Pls help me. It is very urgent.
Thanx
CRPRAJAN

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 1

Then, you can do one of two things...

1. Import to a 3 column staging table (where you can also validate the data before making it live, good safeguard) and transfer from that... or...

2. Make a BCP format file... Books Online explains how to do that quite nicely.

--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.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
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nigelrivett SSCertifiable Points: 5472 More actions · Answer 2

see

http://www.nigelrivett.net/SQLTsql/BCP_quoted_CSV_Format_file.html

Cursors never.
DTS - only when needed and never to control.

mengus Ten Centuries Points: 1187 More actions · Answer 3

crprajan,

Both Jeff and nigelrivett, have valid approaches. There is also a last option of using DTS/SSIS to transform the data from the flat file to the destination table. Even for this option, I would recommend using a staging table, and then copy the imported data from the staging table to the actual destination table.

Regards,

Wameng Vang

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