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When you bulk import to a SQL Server table or bulk export from a table, a format file can store field format information for a data file relative to a table. [!INCLUDEssnoversion] supports two types ...

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.

A common task for a user is to import a flat file to a SQL table. The existing SSMS Import Data wizard provides a much broader set of import capabilities and configuration for defining SQL Server ...

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 ...