September 25, 2013 at 10:39 am
Hello
I need to Bulk Insert a .csv file into an SQL table. The problem is within the .csv file some fields have quotes some have commas within the fields. Does anyone have a solution or a workaround of how I can handle this?
.csv file as follows:
"1 High Street","London","United Kingdom"
"1,High Street","London","United Kingdom"
"1,High Street",,United Kingdom
SQL Code as follows:
BULK INSERT test FROM 'c:\test\test.csv' WITH (FIELDTERMINATOR=',',ROWTERMINATOR = '')
select * from test
You should be able to see all the issues I am experiencing. I tried importing with the quotes specified but due to not all fields having these present it imported incorrectly again.
Any ideas?
Thanks
September 26, 2013 at 2:20 am
Deleted - re-read the question and I was wrong
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September 26, 2013 at 7:32 am
You will need to use BCP with a format file. That way you can specify which columns are quoted and which are not. The format file has a way to specify each column, including separate delimiters which is the case when you have quoted columns.
edit: actually I may have misunderstood you dilemma also. If some columns have quotes and others don't, I would suggest reformatting the file to strip the quotes and replace the column delimiter with something else ( like pipe or any other character that would not show up in any of the columns). I have done this in the past and it works well. It does require to write a simple reformatting utility in .NET or some other scripting language but that's pretty simple.
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September 26, 2013 at 11:34 am
Thanks for the replies, I'll have a look into reformatting the file with .net
September 27, 2013 at 6:54 am
Yuck.
You can also import each entire line into a table then use some kind of multi-pass replace() construct or a REGEX via CLR to change out the delimiters.
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