Bulk insert is not working when I try to read in the .CSV file data from the network path, it throws an error message saying
Cannot bulk load because the file couldn't be opened Operating system error code 5 (Access is denied)
If I try to bulk insert the same file data from the local drive of the server where SQL Server is running, it works fine without any issue. I checked the access rights with the network path, I do have full access. I need help to resolve this issue.
The data file name must specify a valid path from the server on which SQL Server is running.
If the data file is a remote file, specify the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) name.
A UNC name has the form :
\\Systemname\ShareName\Path\FileName.
For example,
\\SystemX\DiskZ\Sales\update.txt.
For more details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/bulk-insert-transact-sql?view=sql-server-2017
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I am running the following query in SQL Server 11.0.
BULK INSERT [dbo].[Andy] FROM "Y:\users\joe\APP data main file.csv"
WITH (FIRSTROW = 2, FIELDTERMINATOR = ',' ,
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n', TABLOCK)
The command is returning the error,
Cannot bulk load because the file "Y:\users\joe\APP data main
file.csv" could not be opened. Operating system error code 3(The
system cannot find the path specified.).
The cause of this error, from researching it online, is that the Bulk Insert task runs by executing the Bulk Insert command from the target SQL server to load the file. This means that the SQL Server Agent of the target SQL server should have permissions on the file I am trying to load. How can I find out whether it does or not?
Secondly, according to Microsoft’s website, “…if a SQL Server user logs on by using Windows Authentication, the user can read only those files that can be accessed by the user account, regardless of the security profile of the SQL Server process.”
I log onto SQL Server using Windows Authentication. By the definition on the MS website, I have access to the file I am trying to insert from. I created it, and I can open it. More specifically, the Windows account I’ve logged onto (my own) is the account that created the csv file, and is the account through which I open SQL Server. Yet the error is there. There is something I am missing, but I have no idea what it is.
Finally, it doesn’t matter whether or not I use the UNC path to access the file, or the drive mapping.
Looks like the file is located on network server, you are referencing mapped drive name, try use UNC network path instead.
I had an email back from my IT department on this question:
The problem I think is that you’re assigned to a server role based on
the user policy group that you’ve been assigned to - which would
correspond with a particular server role - by the network
administrators and this server role doesn’t have access to the file
path for whatever reason. You may have access to the server path
yourself because of another group to which you currently are assigned
but if that group doesn’t correspond with the server role, the server
role won’t have access.
So there we have it. It has since transpired that I can't bulk upload anyway for operational reasons, so I won't be pursuing this any further.
Thanks all for your help.
Accidental DBA here:
I have a variety of CSV exports from my UNIX ERP system that I'm trying to fetch from SQL Server 2014 instead of transferring to my local drive and uploading from there. I have to execute the exports from the ERP system which then sends them to FTP. When I use the Bulk Insert commands I get this error:
Operating system error code 3(The system cannot find the path specified.)
Code for reference:
BULK
INSERT [SALES].DBO.[CUSTOMER-MASTER]
FROM '/tmp/export/customer.txt'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
)
GO
I don't know what the correct file path is nor where to find it. How do I figure this out?
The path must be either file in the SQL Server's disc, or a windows share (SMB) that the account that the server is running can access using an UNC Path. From the documentation:
data_file must specify a valid path from the server on which SQL
Server is running. If data_file is a remote file, specify the
Universal Naming Convention (UNC) name. A UNC name has the form
\\Systemname\ShareName\Path\FileName. For example,
\\SystemX\DiskZ\Sales\update.txt.
In SQL Server Management Studio, I try to do a bulk insert from a file in the local machine. I get that error:
*Cannot bulk load because the file "F:\tick_bulk.txt" could not be opened. Operating system error code 3(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 15105).*
The file is not opened anywhere..
Why does it give that error?
Your path is a local path, in your PC,
Must set path from the server!
to be sure that the path correct, login to the realy server (Server Contains SQL database) and try open the file from there.
NOTE: check also the file permisions.
I am trying to bulk insert a csv file located on a remote web server but i am getting the following error.
Cannot bulk load because the file "http://34.34.32.34/test.csv" could
not be opened. Operating system error code 123(The filename, directory
name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.).
Is there anyway to accomplish this?
The documentation for BULK INSERT says nothing about SQL Server being able to connect to web servers.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188365.aspx
' data_file ' Is the full path of the data file that contains data to
import into the specified table or view. BULK INSERT can import data
from a disk (including network, floppy disk, hard disk, and so on).
data_file must specify a valid path from the server on which SQL
Server is running. If data_file is a remote file, specify the
Universal Naming Convention (UNC) name. A UNC name has the form
\Systemname\ShareName\Path\FileName. For example,
\SystemX\DiskZ\Sales\update.txt.
If you must import a file from HTTP, consider writing a CLR stored procedure or using SSIS' external connectivity capabilities.
http://34.34.32.34/test.csv is, exactly as the error message says, an incorrect file name. Correct filenames look like c:\somefolder\test.csv. Something that starts with http: is an URL, not a file.
BULK INSERT does not support URLs as source. You should download the file first locally (using wget, curl or any other program that can download HTTP content), then bulk insert the downloaded file.
I'm fairly new to SQL Server.
I'm trying to bulk insert into a table, using the command in SQL Server Management Studio (2005):
BULK INSERT Table1 FROM 'c:\text.txt' WITH (FIELDTERMINATOR = '|')
I get the error:
Msg 4860, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot bulk load. The file "c:\text.txt" does not exist.
I'm positive the file actually exists.
I get the feeling that it is looking for the file on the local hard drive for where ever the server is. Is that the case? If so, how do you generally solve this problem? (to note, I've tried specifying the network address of my PC when entering the location of the text file, but I get a permission error. Also, I know in advance that my company doesn't allow files to placed on a server).
SQL Server does not have an SQL statement that reads data from the client end (as the other posters have pointed out). Other RDBMS products do implement this (eg. the Postgres COPY statement lets you specify a file on the server or a file on the client that is read by the db connectivity library on the client side).
You can achieve moving data from a file on the client to a table on SQL Server using the bcp command line program.
bcp lets you copy data from a local file to a table on the server, or from a table (or select query) on the server into a local file. For example:
bcp servername.dbname.tablename in c:\temp.txt -T -c
will copy a tabbed delimited file (temp.txt) into the specified table (assuming the file contains the right number of columns).
I am not sure if this helps, but it is the only way to move data from a client file to a server table without giving the server some sort of access across the network to the data file on client.
I'd agree that it's a problem with the file being on your C drive, and not the server's drive.
If it's a permissions issue, have you tried creating a file share on your workstation that the server does have permissions to read from? Maybe something like \YourWorkstation\SQLFile, and then granting everyone (or Guest, depending on how your network permissions are set up) read access on it?
If you can't create the share on your laptop, or you can't grant rights to it for some reason, is there a file share somewhere in the office that you do have rights to, and that SQL can also read from? Maybe a NAS or a "Common" network folder?
Have you created a share drive on your machine that the server can see? If so then you just need to refer to the path including your machine name instead of C:
Yes, it will look for the file on the SQL server itself.
If you can map a network drive to the C drive of your SQL server, then you can just copy the file over before running the bulk insert.
If you absolutely can't get any access to the server's file system, then you can look at doing something like this:
write a program that reads your text file and inserts the contents into single record in a temporary table that has a Text field, perhaps using a stored procedure
have the program execute the bcp command to export the data from the temporary table into a text file on the SQL server's local file system, to a folder that the account under which the SQL service is running has write permission
have the program run a bulk insert command specifying the path to the text file on the server
delete the text file and the temporary table