Question

I have a C# project where I am trying to autofill a SQL table with a file downloaded from the net.

The file is http://ts1.travian.com/map.sql and you will see that it has data already set for SQL database manipulations.

Here’s a little snipet of how they look:

INSERT INTO `x_world`
    VALUES (1517,315,399,3,181705,'New Remial',82126,'Tale',0,'',273);
INSERT INTO `x_world`
    VALUES (67792,107,316,1,175829,'3.Clay',35440,'salvaje_jabali',0,'',244);
INSERT INTO `x_world`
    VALUES (32790,349,360,1,189271,'Lumeria',9702,'Aquifel',90,'APE',20);
INSERT INTO `x_world`
    VALUES (72449,-42,310,1,194313,'New village',2634,'paloc',0,'',24);
INSERT INTO `x_world`
    VALUES (75669,-26,306,1,170802,'Yao Ming',2634,'paloc',0,'',330);

I’ve inserted a break line before each INSERT code for readability.

I have recreated the Table in my project with all the required columns but how can I have the project download the file on the click of a Button (named CommandButton1) and then parse all of that data into the required columns in the table in my project (the data in the downloaded file is separated by a comma it seems all the way through).

Answer 1

Using the code from Robbie’s answer and elaborating on that:

using System.Net;

//Download
WebClient Client = new WebClient ();
Client.DownloadFile("http://ts1.travian.com/map.sql", @"C:\folder\file.sql");

// Read into a file
var sqltext = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(@"c:\folder\file.sql");
// Split the sql statements up
var sqlStatements = sqltext.Split(';'); 

// Insert
using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionParameters))
    {   
        connection.Open();
        foreach (var sqlStatement in sqlStatements)  
        {
            SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(sqlStatement, connection);
            command.ExecuteNonQuery();
        }
    }