BULK INSERT ERROR with SQL statement

[ehenry]

I am getting an error when attempting to use BULK INSERT to add data from a small csv file to a table.

Here is the SQL statement:

BULK INSERT Temp
FROM 'c:\Actuals.csv'
With
(
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\r\n'
)


Here is the CSV file:

03017,09/17/2009,51.0,78.0,64.5,0.5,0.0
03103,09/17/2009,40.0,70.0,55.0,10.0,0.0
03145,09/17/2009,76.0,103.0,89.5,0.0,24.5
03804,09/17/2009,52.0,83.0,67.5,0.0,2.5
03812,09/17/2009,63.0,69.0,66.0,0.0,1.0


I have 2 CSV files I am trying this with, both in the above format. One has 5 rows and the other has 225 rows.

The one with 5 rows gives 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 1, column 7 (CDDs).


The file with 225 rows gives the following error:

Msg 4866, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The bulk load failed. The column is too long in the data file for row 1, column 7. Verify that the field terminator and row terminator are specified correctly.
Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.
Msg 7330, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Cannot fetch a row from OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)".

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

 

[gmmastros]

try:


ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'

(remove the \r)


-George

"The great things about standards is that there are so many to choose from." - Fortune Cookie Wisdom

 

[ehenry]

I have already tried that. What I have done now is changed the data type of the last column in my table from float to text and it will append one line to the table.

In the last column it has a long string with the last value on the first row followed by a square looking character. When I copy that character and paste it as my Row terminator i get:

ROWTERMINATOR = '
'

running this appends the file properly.

Is there a way around putting a full line as the ROWTERMINATOR? I know that square looking character is a newline character.

 

[gmmastros]

I would suggest that you open the file in a hex editor to see what the ASCII code is for the line terminator. In most cases, it is cr/lf. Sounds to me like you have something else. Determining what that something else is... is crucial to solving the problem.

You may want to try...

DECLARE @bulk_cmd varchar(1000)
SET @bulk_cmd = 'BULK INSERT Temp FROM ''C:\actuals.csv''
WITH (FIELDTERMINATOR = '','', ROWTERMINATOR = '''+CHAR(10)+''')'
EXEC (@bulk_cmd)

-George

"The great things about standards is that there are so many to choose from." - Fortune Cookie Wisdom

 

[ehenry]

Yes the char(10) works...Thank you very much.