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BCP format file? Syntax error?
Hi Experts,
I'm trying to create a format file from a table, to be used in the Bulk Insert Task of a step in an SSIS package I'm building.
The reason I want to use a format file is because I need to import a very large csv file every day into the database (hence the use of the Bulk Insert rather than normal Data Flow), and I notice the csv file is sometimes incomplete. Sometimes the last line of the file just ends abruptly.
While that needs to be fixed, that's not my problem. And I must pull in all the data regardless of things like that.. at least for now.
So I thought a format file would do the trick. Am I right? If not, what do you think?
On the database server itself, I run this line and get a syntax error:
bcp Diamond.dbo.STG_CUSTOMERCO
The syntax error is attached.
I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here. Could you help me?
Thank you,
rss2
I'm trying to create a format file from a table, to be used in the Bulk Insert Task of a step in an SSIS package I'm building.
The reason I want to use a format file is because I need to import a very large csv file every day into the database (hence the use of the Bulk Insert rather than normal Data Flow), and I notice the csv file is sometimes incomplete. Sometimes the last line of the file just ends abruptly.
While that needs to be fixed, that's not my problem. And I must pull in all the data regardless of things like that.. at least for now.
So I thought a format file would do the trick. Am I right? If not, what do you think?
On the database server itself, I run this line and get a syntax error:
bcp Diamond.dbo.STG_CUSTOMERCO
The syntax error is attached.
I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here. Could you help me?
Thank you,
rss2
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I ran it from the command line on the server..
bcp Diamond.dbo.STG_CUSTOMERCO
bcp Diamond.dbo.STG_CUSTOMERCO
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could you please show the screenshot, with the full error?
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Looks like I was using the Sybase version of bcp.
Here is the result of using SQL Server 2008's bcp (screen shot attached).
Thank you for your help!!!!
bcp-syntax-error-II.JPG
Here is the result of using SQL Server 2008's bcp (screen shot attached).
Thank you for your help!!!!
bcp-syntax-error-II.JPG
your error is now "cannot open host format file"
which means, the file w:\testformat.fmt is not accessible.
which means, the file w:\testformat.fmt is not accessible.
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spot on
from the SQL Server Query tool, or from the OS command line?
it must be the OS command line tool, as BCP is NOT a SQL or T-SQL command, but a command line tool (bcp.exe) ...