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Now that you’ve automated the fetching of your flat file via FTP, the next step is to automatically import that file into SQL Server. To do this, we’ll use an SQL Server Agent Job.

We have an ancient AS/400 730 system that still houses some old budget/financial data. We'd like to decommission this box, and migrate the data to a SQL server. The data won't be modified or ...

A common task for a user is to import a flat file to a SQL table. The existing SSMS Import Data wizard provides a much broader set of import capabilities and configuration for defining SQL Server ...

Click the name of your SQL server in the Object Explorer pane to expose your databases. Select "user databases," then right-click the name of the database you want to restore (Source 1).

Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim Chapman discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth ...

SQL Server 2008 R2, ... One can use Excel to import data, format the data, and put it into databases. Files can also be exported to SharePoint and shared.

In SQL Server, you can use a format file in bulk-import operations. A format file maps the fields of the data file to the columns of the table. For a format file to work with a Unicode character data ...