Inserting Data in SQL Server from Text file


To insert data from a text file, we have to keep a fully formatted text file with appropriate data’s which are to be inserted.

The query for creating table,
CREATE TABLE Employee
(
   FirstName varchar (100) NOT NULL,
LastName varchar (100) NOT NULL,
Email varchar (100) NOT NULL
)

Then we have a text file with the bulk data’s like as follows,

sibin,thomas,sibinthomask@gmail.com
emp1FirstName,emp1LastName,emp1@company.com
emp2FirstName,emp2LastName,emp2@company.com
emp3FirstName,emp3LastName,emp3@company.com
emp4FirstName,emp4LastName,emp4@company.com
emp5FirstName,emp5LastName,emp5@company.com
emp6FirstName,emp6LastName,emp6@company.com
emp7FirstName,emp7LastName,emp7@company.com
emp8FirstName,emp8LastName,emp8@company.com
emp9FirstName,emp9LastName,emp9@company.com
emp10FirstName,emp10LastName,emp10@company.com
emp11FirstName,emp11LastName,emp11@company.com
emp12FirstName,emp12LastName,emp12@company.com

Put the name of the file as 'EmployeeList.txt'

Now the query for inserting data is,
BULK INSERT Employee FROM 'c:\EmployeeList.txt' WITH (FIELDTERMINATOR = ',')

View the inserted data from table 'Employee',
select * from Employee

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