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 ...

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.