JWColby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu May 3 07:32:54 CDT 2007
I am on the final leg of the data import for the 100 million record data import. I have about 30 remaining "csv files" in a directory which have to be imported to SQL Server. ATM I am manually editing a query which looks like: BULK INSERT Infutor.dbo.infutor FROM 'D:\PSMData\infutor\CSV\NAR_ND1.CSV' with ( yadayada ) Obviously 'D:\PSMData\infutor\CSV\ is the path to the files and NAR_ND1.CSV' is the file currently being processed. I have a table of all the files from a preprocessor I wrote that generated the csv files. If I could turn query into a stored procedure with a parameter for the file name, I could then call the stored procedure from Access and pass in the filenames. I have never done this before so I need to know how this is done. I have created a couple of stored procedures but none with a parameter that has to be appended to a string etc. All of my books make a rather huge assumption that any parameters passed in will be used a filters in where clauses and so forth, and completely ignore things like constants and variables inside of the stored procedure. My ASSUMPTION is that I can create a constant to hold the path, dim a variable to hold the finished file name with path, then append the path constant and the passed in parameter and store the results in the string variable. Then I can use that to replace the string in the FROM clause. Or just do the append directly "in place" in the FROM clause. At any rate I end up with something like: . . . FROM 'D:\PSMData\infutor\CSV\' & @FileName QUESTIONS: 1) Having created this stored procedure, how do I get it to save? Whenever I try to save it SQL Server tries to save it out as a text file on disk. 2) Having saved it, how do I execute it from Access passing in the file names. If I can get this concept down I will be a huge step further along in my automation task. Any help is much appreciated. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com