vj.one (7/29/2015)
Hi All,I have done this before. The concept is simple, Load the flat file in ragged right format into a table with one filed having n/varchar(max).
Once its a table, we have many ways to split into columns. One way I used is by using a split function. The performance will be slow. But we can achieve this.
Regards,
Vijay
That works fine if the file "looks" like a table, although that can be a bit slow. It doesn't work so fine for files that look like the following.
For something like that, even if you bring the raw data into a nice columnar format, it's going to require a bit of work to normalize the data so that it can actually be queried in a useful manner.
I realize that it might not be an actual spreadsheet that is being imported but it certainly could be a CSV or TSV file that was created from such a thing.
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