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Import CSV with valid comma

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ngontran
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Posted - 2010-11-14 : 23:06:57

Hi guys,

I'm a newbie here. Nice to meet everyone

Recently, I was trying to import a CSV file to a database as a table.
But I found out that in my CSV, it has something like this line:

DASD870W,"5.1CH DVD SYSTEM,",,SAM1000,AIWA LTD,AIWA,1025,DVD Lifestyle System,Browns

Note the bold field, somehow my the SQL server(2005) does not understand that as a single column but putting that string to the next column. Does anyone knows how to fix this type of problem? I believe this is a common case one but I couldn't find a helpful source for this.

Thnx in advance,

Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-15 : 11:48:13

Depends what you are importing the CSV file with. CSV specification means different things to different people!

To me it means:


Col1,Col2,Col3
Col1,"Col2 embedded,comma quote delimited",Col3
Col1,"Col2 embedded "" quote and quote delimited",Col3

and to some people it may mean allowing comma-delimiters for trailing, blank, columns to be ommitted

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-18 : 07:22:09

Did you try using a format file?
http://www.nigelrivett.net/SQLTsql/BCP_quoted_CSV_Format_file.html

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