Importing flatfile data to MSSQL table

>>Script Language and Platform: MSSQL
This script is used to read the data from a flat file and then populate it into the database table.

Currently the path and the table names are hardcoded which can be made a parameter variable if the path is not fixed.

Author: Alok Vyas

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF

GO

SET ANSI_NULLS ON

GO

alter procedure loaddata as

BEGIN

declare @query varchar(7000)

declare @string varchar(1500)

declare @string1 varchar(500)

drop table x

create table x (name varchar(2000))

set @query =’master.dbo.xp_cmdshell “type C:SAMPLE_FILE.TXT”‘

insert x exec (@query)

declare C1 cursor local fast_forward for select name from x;

open c1

fetch next from c1 into @string

while @@FETCH_STATUS = 0

	BEGIN

	fetch next from c1 into @string1

		if (len(@string1)<>0 or @string1<>null)

		  Begin

			set @string=@string+@string1

		  END

		ELSE if  @string<>”

                    Begin

			insert into filedata values(

			substring(@string,1,16),

			substring(@string,17,35),

			substring(@string,52,25),

			substring(@string,77,25),

			substring(@string,102,25),

			substring(@string,127,25),

			substring(@string,152,25),

			substring(@string,177,20),

			substring(@string,197,15),

			substring(@string,212,15),

			substring(@string,227,50),

			substring(@string,277,15),

			substring(@string,292,17),

			substring(@string,309,17),

			substring(@string,326,17),

			substring(@string,343,17),

			substring(@string,360,17),

			substring(@string,377,17),

			substring(@string,394,3),

			substring(@string,397,6),

			substring(@string,403,4),

			substring(@string,407,6),

			substring(@string,413,40),

			substring(@string,453,15),

			substring(@string,468,1),

			substring(@string,469,30),

			substring(@string,499,30),

			substring(@string,529,30),

			substring(@string,559,30),

			substring(@string,588,30),

			substring(@string,619,30),

			substring(@string,649,30),

			substring(@string,679,30),

			substring(@string,709,30),

			substring(@string,739,30))

			set @string=”

		   End

	END

END
GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF

GO

SET ANSI_NULLS ON

GO

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