Comments on: Importing CSV files [C#/Delphi/SQL Server]

By: Upen

Upen — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:12:02 +0000

Thank You Guys… Really very usefull stuff. my problem is solved within
a few minutes.

By: Deepak

Deepak — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:09:46 +0000

Great!! Just needed the correct connectionstring and everything fell into place… :-) Many thanks!!!

By: Asif

Asif — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:03:29 +0000

Dear,

I am new to SQL and fortunately I have to start with to import CSV file into SQL. I found this piece of Code really perfect to meet my 100% requirements.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:25:40 +0000

Also of note here: the MS Text Provider used here will only accept a fairly standard definition of CSV files, and discard any records that don’t conform.

I’ve got a CSV file with subfields delimited with “;”. To wit:
“Field1”,“Field2”,“Field3.1”;“Field3.2”;“Field3.3”,“Field4”,“Field5”

The MS Text Driver will discard a record like this. Excel, on the other hand, will import it with some minor changes. So I’m trying to write a routine that will properly handle a second delimiter such as this (which is not consistently applied). I’m very surprised I’ve not found any code snippets on dealing with this.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:09:10 +0000

Anybody knows if this script works with excel files???

Thanks!

By: Rick Jolly

Rick Jolly — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:59:10 +0000

My posts are being reformatted, sorry. Probably the same thing that happened to Midimark. For an existing table use the first solution from Mikhail but replace:

SELECT *
INTO theImportTable
FROM ...

with

INSERT INTO importTable (column1, column2,...)
SELECT *
FROM ...

By: Rick Jolly

Rick Jolly — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:53:51 +0000

Oops, sorry ignore my first post. This is the sql I used:

INSERT INTO tableName (column1, column2,...)
SELECT *
FROM

OPENROWSET('MSDASQL',
        'Driver={Microsoft Text Driver (*.txt; *.csv)};
          DEFAULTDIR=C:\csvFileDirectoryPath\;Extensions=CSV;',
        'SELECT * FROM csvFile.csv')

By: George

George — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:27:23 +0000

The script works great…