Question

I need to import a CSV into a SQL 2008 database. One of the fields is a directory, and apparently there are over 1600 rows that have a “,” in the field name. This field is now broken out incorrectly in my database. There are over 100000 rows total.

How can I avoid this and modify my statement?

Here is the creation of the table:

create table tablename
(
Directory       varchar(1000),
Name            varchar(1000),
Size            varchar(50),
CreationTime    varchar(100),
LastAccessTime  varchar(100),
LastWriteTime   varchar(100)
)

Below is the code I used to import it:

BULK
INSERT tablename
FROM 'c:\EmailCSVs\myfile.csv'
WITH
(
FIRSTROW = 2,
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
)
GO

An example in the directory field looks like this:

\\drive\share\nightly.175\savemail\user\(Monday, January 10, 2011, 500 PM)

And here is an example row in the CSV:

"\\drive\share\nightly.175\savemail\user\(Monday, January 10, 2011, 500 PM)","Archive #1.1.pst","271360","1/14/2011 8:37:05 AM","6/1/2011 12:00:38 AM","1/14/2011 2:45:27 PM"

Answer 1

Give FIELDTERMINATOR='","' a try.