I am trying to import a .csv files into my sql Database that has been created on the SQL server 2014. The problem is that my csv tables have different names from the tables that I have create in my own Database. I cannot change the names on the csv files or the names on my database. They have to stay as they are. Can import the csv files into each table on my database without having an error? please help me out, i'm confused.
Use the import export wizard that is packaged with SQL Server, you can set the data source to a flat file such as CSV. It has a built in mapping option as below
I assume you are using import wizard, but once you pick data source and data destination, go to option "edit Mappings", there you can check which columns goes where, just make sure that columns are the same type
Yes, Steps:
Select the database
Right Click and Select the task and click on export
Select the source database and click next and select the CSV database as destination
click next and do the mapping of Source and destination columns
Click next to Finish
Now data will be imported to the database on appropriate columns
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I am attempting to import a large Excel file into Access, into a linked table connected to SQL Server. When I left click on the linked table in Access, and select "import", I'm shown three options. Whatever option I select, it seems to create a new local table with the same name, rather than importing the Excel data into the SQL Server table that is linked. Does anyone know what I can do? Basically I'd like to use Access to access a SQL Server table, and be able to paste or import a large amount of data from Excel to the linked table in Access.
DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acImport, acSpreadsheetTypeExcel12Xml,"dbo.Yourtablename","your file path and name with extension",true (only if the excel file has field names that match your table field names),choose your excel cell range (example: A2:A324)
I have a SQL Server Database as a project. I created it using Add Item -> SQL Server.
On the database project I do Add Item > Table which adds an SQL file. That sql file just creates a table with column Id, nothing else.
I then published that database. I can now see it on the Server Object Explorer.
I want to populate the table using a CSV file, and I also want to import the columns from the CSV file.
Then I created a new Query in the Object Explorer and used a BULK INSERT statement to import the csv file. I wanted to see if it would work because the table has just an Id column, and it did not. So my question is, how do I import the new columns when the table already has it's own schema?
I have also used the SQL Import and Export Wizard which is packaged with Microsoft SQL Server 2016. That is able to create a new table, but not import the new columns into a previously existing table.
You can find the explanation of how to do this in 1 operation here:
How to create and populate a table in a single step as part of a CSV import operation?
Is it possible to link an Excel sheet to a SQL Server database? I want to be able to join the Excel columns to the tables in SQL Server and run queries. I can find plenty of examples to link the tables from SQL Server to Excel, but I want the other way around.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
Use SQL Server Import and Export Wizard.
Set your worksheet as a Data Source
Excel file path
Specify the path and file name for the spreadsheet
from which to import the data. For example, C:\MyData.xlsx or
\Sales\Database\Northwind.xlsx. Or, click Browse.
Browse
Locate the spreadsheet by using the Open dialog box.
Excel version Select the version of Excel that is used by the source
workbook.
I have a set of large CSV files with many columns each that I need to import into a SQL Azure database. Ordinarily I would use the import wizard in SQL Server Management Studio. However, the wizard does not appear to be an option when connecting to SQL Azure in SSMS. Is that correct? And if so, what is the recommended tool for accomplishing this task? I'm looking for a tool that will infer from the data what the columns should be allowing me to override the data type as needed. Since I have a lot of columns in each of the files I'd like to avoid the tedious work of manually writing the SQL code to generate the tables.
This worked for me:
Open SQL Server Management Studio
Connect to Azure
Right-click the database
Go to Tasks > Import Data
Select your flat file(s)
Upload to Azure SQL and create an SSIS package based on this workflow
I sometimes get errors with CSV files this way, but either using an Excel file or inspecting the options of the CSV data columns in the Import Wizard should suffice.
Make sure you have appropriate permissions assigned to your user account.
They could've / should've made this easier, like a SFTP + insert or a GUI import directly to Azure SQL like in Hue.
When you are transferring any data to SQL Database, the data should be structured. The proces will be to convert your CSV to a table structure and then migrate it directly to SQL Azure. Actually you can write a stored procedure in SSMS to do it all in one.
Because CSV file could be tab, comma, or any other character delimited, you can do bulk insert in local DB first as described here and then sync the table to SQL Azure.
I want to extract only table structure from a SQL Server database. But if I extract normally using export wizard only single file is created but I want to create separate files for separate tables.
Could anybody tell me how to do this in SQL Server ?
Go to Object Explorer, pick Generate Scripts:
Then select what objects to script out, and on the second page of the wizard, select Single File Per Object:
Run the wizard and you have your one file per object as you need it.