Question

I am quite new with SQL Server.
I have got a .txt file with values separated like this:

20120101;001;2;0;0;0;0;0;8
20120102;002;3;0;0;0;0;0;8
20120103;003;4;0;0;0;0;0;8
...

This file is in a server and I need to import this file everyday at the same hour autommaticaly, and update the changes (the file is changing every day). I was thinking in making a function to do it but I don’t know if it is even possible.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

insert into your_table
  SELECT a.*  
  FROM OPENROWSET( BULK 'c:\input.csv', FORMATFILE = 'c:\Format.fmt') AS a;

Exaample Format.fmt

9.0
6
1       SQLCHAR     0     15   ";"      1     col1      SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
2       SQLCHAR     0     25   ";"      2     col2      SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
3       SQLCHAR     0     6    ";"      3     col3      SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
4       SQLCHAR     0     5    ";"      4     col4      SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
5       SQLCHAR     0     15   ";"      5     col5      SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
6       SQLCHAR     0     100  "\r\n"   6     col6      SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS