Home/ Questions/Q 6084329
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-23T11:30:31+00:00

I am using Visual Studio 2010. My database is SQL Server. I have a

  • 0

I am using Visual Studio 2010. My database is SQL Server. I have a static link which has daily updated data in .txt format (it is a tab (space) separated file). I want to import the data from the .txt file to the SQL Server database. This is to be done daily. Hence I can schedule it on the SQL Server to run everyday. The scheduling is done.

Can someone please help me to write the script for the import? And I can’t use BULK command. Is there anyway to do this? Please help.

Thanks.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    If you cannot use the BULK INSERT statements (again: why??), then my best bet would be to create a small console app that would

    • download that file from the static URL

    • use the FileHelpers library to load the .txt file into memory (it does this very well and very easily – you define the structure as a C# class, and don’t have to worry about anything else anymore…)

    • use a SQL Server stored procedure or a parametrized SQL inline query to store the entries – one by one – into your SQL Server table

    Once you have that console app, use the Windows scheduled tasks facility to run this app once e.g. every morning or whatever your schedule is.

    • 0