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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.

To import data from a CSV file into a SQL database, you need to create a table that matches the structure and data types of the file, and then use the COPY or BULK INSERT command to load the data.

To import data from data files with fixed-length or fixed-width fields, use a format file. For more information, see XML Format Files (SQL Server). Starting with [!INCLUDE sssql17-md], a CSV file can ...