Hi,
Can anybody look at the below problem and provide me the solution.
Regards,
Nabeel Ahmad
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From: Nabeel Ahmad [mailto:mssqldba-ezmlmshield-x71467106.[Email address protected]
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:16 PM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: RE: BULK INSERT with firstrow=2
Also Dano,
If we will insert all the text in column then max col size is 8000, if the size is more than 8000 then the rest text will not be inserted into that column.
So data loss may happen in this case.
Any other solution please.
Regards,
Nabeel Ahmad
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Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 6:28 PM
To: Nabeel Ahmad
Subject: RE: BULK INSERT with firstrow=2
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Garbage In Garbage Out,
Take out the garbage.
The first row is still parsed, and it needs to match the file definition
on col/row terminators.
I get crappy files like this all the time, and in this case, I would
suggest.
Create a table "dbo.Line (col1 line varchar(2000) <-- whatever your max
len is)
Then bulk insert into the one single line, no column delimiter, just a
row delimiter.
Then after the data is in sql, in a single column, you can query to your
hearts content, leaving out the first, row.
Parsing as needed, etc.
Or conceiveably, you could remove the first row, bulk copy back out,
then back in a final time, with the formatted columns.
Dano Smith
-----Original Message-----
From: Nabeel Ahmad
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 11:38 PM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: BULK INSERT with firstrow=2
Importance: Low
Hi,
I have a text file and having the header of unwanted columns having less
than the no. of data column in the txt file. I am using the bulk insert
command to insert the text file data into the sql server table by using
the below query:
BULK INSERT Mytable FROM 'e:\Mytext.txt'
WITH
(
FIRSTROW = 2,
FIELDTERMINATOR = ';',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
)
Mytext.txt contains, lets assume like this ---
Name;FName;year;Sex
Robin Singh;Robin;2007;M;Graduate;Working;India
John Mathew;John;1999;M;Post Graduate;Working;USA
Rita Jhonson;Rita;2000;F;Graduate;Housewife;UK
When we are running above query it is inserting from the 3 row i.e. John
Mathew skipping the 2 row. What I come to know from the above result
that if the header has less columns in the txt file then it considers
2nd row as 1st row that's why it's skipping the 2nd row when we are
using above bulk insert.
If there is any solution to insert all the row except header kindly let
me know.
Regards,
Nabeel Ahmad
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