Working in the Visual Studio database feature. I've got two tables and I need to load a .csv file into them. I broke out the .csv file into my first and 2nd table. I'm trying a bulk insert
BULK INSERT Course
FROM 'E:\CourseInfo.csv'
WITH
(
FIRSTROW = 2,
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',', --CSV field delimiter
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n', --Use to shift the control to next row
TABLOCK
)
Everything seems right to me but I receive an error saying:
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 2, column 3 (ID).
Here is a snippet of my .CSV file being used.
CourseID,CourseTitle,ID,
AC107,Accounting I,1,
AC107,Accounting I,2,
AC110,Payroll Accounting,3,
AC212,Taxation I,4,
AC212,Taxation I,5,
What is meant by mismatch or invalid char? I've tried removing all the values for column 'ID' but that still rendered the same error. I had ID set to auto-increment setting it as "isEntity" but have tried both ways with it set to true and false, still same error.
Possible error: Laid a huge egg, think I have to normalize this prior to doing this because there are multiples of the same class with different ID and that isn't right.
To Answer my own question, I had my PK set to ID and it was showing up for Duplicate Rows where there was duplicate data. I have to remove duplicate courseID, and CourseTitle rows prior to populating my ID Column with values.
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I am using Azure data factory to Archive data from Azure Sql Db to Azure Blob Store and Bulk insert to retrieve the data.
I am using below as row and column seperator.
Column delimiter:\u0001
Row delimiter:\u0003
My Bulk Insert is below.
BULK INSERT mytable 'MyPath/file.txt'
WITH (DATA_SOURCE = 'MySource',FIELDTERMINATOR ='\u0001', ROWTERMINATOR = '\u0003');
I am getting the below error:
Msg 4866, Level 16, State 1, Line 41
The bulk load failed. The column is too long in the data file for row 1, column 1. Verify that the field terminator and row terminator are specified correctly.
Documentation said Unicode is supported for FIELDTERMINATOR and ROWTERMINATOR then what could be the issue?
It seems unicode is not fully supported for bulk insert.
**Only the t, n, r, 0 and '\0' characters work with the backslash escape character to produce a control character.
Link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/import-export/specify-field-and-row-terminators-sql-server?view=azuresqldb-current
I'm having an issue that I have not encountered before when bulk inserting from a csv file. For whatever reason, the last column isn't being separated on insert. I kept getting type conversion errors that I knew couldn't be true so I changed the datatype to varchar to see what was being inserted. When I looked at the result set, I saw that instead of (ex. 35.44, 56.82 separated in two columns) in the .csv, I saw (ex. 35.44,56.82 all in one column). This of course is why SQL Server was throwing that error, but how can I resolve this. Am I missing something simple?
To sum it up, the Bulk Insert is ignoring the last field terminator and combining the last two columns into one column
My Bulk Insert:
BULK
INSERT [YourTableName]
FROM 'YourFilePathHere'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR=',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
)
A row:
YSQ3863,Bag 38x63 YELLOW 50/RL,CS,BAG,17.96,LB,1,50,50,YELLOW,,,,,,63,17.96,,,,38,,2394,,8.15,11.58,19.2,222.41
For some reason I keep receiving the following error when trying to bulk insert a CSV file into SQL Express:
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the
specified codepage) for row 2, column 75 (Delta_SM_RR).
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Line 89
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the
specified codepage) for row 3, column 75 (Delta_SM_RR).
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Line 89
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the
specified codepage) for row 4, column 75 (Delta_SM_RR).
... etc.
I have been attempting to insert this column as both decimal and numeric, and keep receiving this same error (if I take out this column, the same error appears for the subsequent column).
Please see below for an example of the data, all data points within this column contain decimals and are all rounded after the third decimal point:
Delta_SM_RR
168.64
146.17
95.07
79.85
60.52
61.03
-4.11
-59.57
1563.09
354.36
114.78
253.46
451.5
Any sort of help or advice would be greatly appreciated as it seems that a number of people of SO have come across this issue. Also, if anyone knows of another automated way to load a CSV into SSMS, that would be a great help as well.
Edits:
Create Table Example_Table
(
[Col_1] varchar(255),
[Col_2] numeric(10,5),
[Col_3] numeric(10,5),
[Col_4] numeric(10,5),
[Col_5] date,
[Delta_SM_RR] numeric(10,5),
)
GO
BULK INSERT
Example_Table
FROM 'C:\pathway\file.csv'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n',
FIRSTROW = 2
);
Table Schema - This is a standalone table (further calculations and additional tables are built off of this single table, however at the time of bulk insert it is the only table)
It's likely that your data has an error in it. That is, that there is a character or value that can't be converted explicitly to NUMERIC or DECIMAL. One way to check this and fix it is to
Change [Delta_SM_RR] numeric(10,5) to [Delta_SM_RR] nvarchar(256)
Run the bulk insert
Find your error row: select * from Example_Table where [Delta_SM_RR] like '%[^-.0-9]%'
Fix the data at the source, or delete from Example_Table where [Delta_SM_RR] like '%[^-.0-9]%'
The last statements returns/deletes rows where there is something other than a digit, period, or hyphen.
For your date column you can follow the same logic above, by changing the column to VARCHAR, and then find your error by using ISDATE() to find the ones which can't be converted.
I'll bet anything there is some weird character in your data set. Open your data set in Notepad++ and view the data. Any aberration should become apparent very quickly! The problem is coming from Col75 and it's affecting the first several rows, and thus everything that comes after that also fails to load.
Make sure that .csv is not using text qualifiers and that none of your fields in the .csv have a comma inside the desired value.
I am struggling with this issue right now. The issue is that I have a 68 column report I am trying to import.
Column 17 is a "Description" column that has a double quote text qualifier on top of the comma delimitation.
Bulk insert with a comma field terminator won't identify the double quote text qualifier and munge all of the data to the right of the offending column.
It looks like to overcome this, you need to create a .fmt file to instruct the Bulk Insert which columns it needs to treat as simple delimited, and which columns it needs to treat as delimited and qualified (see this answer).
I am doing a bulk insert from a CSV file.
In one of my columns, I am using a colon such as this 36:21.0. For every row in this column I am getting the following error:
"Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 11, column 3 (MyColumnName)."
Does anyone know a workaround to this so that I will be able to bulk insert the columns that have a colon in the data along with the rest of my columns?
Here is my query if you are interested:
BULK INSERT dbo.[PropertyDefinition] FROM
'//MY CSV FILE PATH HERE'
WITH(
FIRSTROW = 2,
DATAFILETYPE ='char',
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
)
Your query is correct.
I don't think that colon is causing the problem because the field-terminator and row-terminator does not include colon.
This problem is usually caused due to data type miss-match in the file and the table.
Just make sure that the datatype you are giving for column 3 is matching with the datatype of data in the file at row 11, column 3.
I have an csv like this :
"F","003","abc""X","1","50A1","name","Z5AA1A005C","70008","","A1ZZZZ17","","","","","","""X","2","50A1","name","Z5AA1A005C","70007","","A1ZZZZ17","","","","","","""X","3","50A1","name","Z5AA1A005C","70000","","A1ZZZZ17","","","","","",""
I need to bulk insert to tabel A
from the 2nd row
BULK INSERT A FROM 'c:\csvtest.csv'
WITH
(
FIELDTERMINATOR='","',
ROWTERMINATOR='0x0a',
FIRSTROW = 2,
DATAFILETYPE = 'widenative'
)
the problem is when I insert, failed insert
it show error :
Msg 4866, Level 16, State 8, Line 15 The bulk load failed. The column
is too long in the data file for row 1, column 15. Verify that the
field terminator and row terminator are specified correctly. Msg 7301,
Level 16, State 2, Line 15 Cannot obtain the required interface
("IID_IColumnsInfo") from OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server
"(null)".
I have tried rowterminator : '0x0a','\n','\r\n','char(10)' but nothing works
Although it will only be inserting data from row2 row 1 still needs to be in the correct format as I'm pretty sure SQLServer performs a 'pre-validation' cycle against the Schema to ensure you have half a chance of the data getting to the database. Row 1 fails this 'pre-validation' because you have not provided all the columns as per the table schema.
Try to Open the file in Notepad then check it for line structure and save it again.