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.

To import data from a CSV file, you can follow these general steps: (independent of RDBMS type) 1. Open your database management tool or SQL command line interface.

Make sure you have an database in Azure that you can use for tests. If you are new to Azure SQL and need help in creating a new database, make sure to watch this 5 minutes video: Remember that speed ...