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.

Any fees associated with an AS/400 will not "nominal." Unless you work for the US government. I know just about nothing about the software on an AS/400, but you will need to export the data from ...

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.