Question

I have a table stored in database with below sample data:

  Name     City     Age
  lily   New York   NULL
  Sam    Seattle    NULL

Now I need to update the table with a text file containing below data:

  Name     City     Age
  lily   New York   27
  Sam    Seattle    33

The text file comes without the column names.
I’m not allowed to drop the current table and do a bulk insert with the new text file. Anyone knows the way around it? Thanks!!!!!!

Answer 1

Sql Server Management Studio => Right Click on the Destination Database => Tasks => Import Data

there you will have a wizard, you can choose “flat file” as a source

i don’t remember if you can script that before executing it