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I want to make a program in C# that imports two types of files to SQL Server: tab delimited and fixed columns. Actually, I need to download a file every day and import that file into my database. I could make a console app with batch script. I saw some examples like this, but I don´t know if it is the best object-oriented way to do it.
I could use StreamReader, Regex and so on, but I don’t want to re-invent the wheel.
PS:
In VBA I used “QueryTables.Add”.
If you don’t want to reinvent the wheel, then you should look at the native tools that SQL Server provides for this, namely bcp. Here is a list of FAQs about bcp.