Bulk insert using stored procedure
I have a query which is working fine:
BULK INSERT ZIPCodes
FROM 'e:\5-digit Commercial.csv'
WITH
(
FIRSTROW = 2 ,
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
)
but now I want to create a stored procedure for it.
I have written below code to make its stored procedure:
create proc dbo.InsertZipCode
@filepath varchar(500)='e:\5-digit Commercial.csv'
as
begin
BULK INSERT ZIPCodes
FROM @filepath
WITH
(
FIRSTROW = 2 ,
FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
)
end
but its showing error:
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure InsertZipCode, Line 6 Incorrect syntax near '@filepath'.
Msg 319, Level 15, State 1, Procedure InsertZipCode, Line 7 Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'with'. If this statement is a common table expression, an xmlnamespaces clause or a change tracking context clause, the previous statement must be terminated with a semicolon.
Please tell me what I am doing wrong and what I can do to make it work in stored procedure.
Thanks
There's nothing wrong with your stored procedure code - the point is: the BULK INSERT
command cannot accept a file name as a variable.
This does work:
BULK INSERT ZIPCodes
FROM 'e:\5-digit Commercial.csv'
WITH
but this never works - within a stored proc or not:
DECLARE @filename VARCHAR(255)
SET @filename = 'e:\5-digit Commercial.csv'
BULK INSERT ZIPCodes
FROM @filename
WITH
So you just cannot do it this way, unfortunately. You could consider building up your BULK INSERT
statement as a string (with a fixed file name) and then execute it as dynamic SQL - but I don't really see any other solution.
DECLARE @filepath nvarchar(500)
SET @filepath = N'e:\5-digit Commercial.csv'
DECLARE @bulkinsert NVARCHAR(2000)
SET @bulkinsert =
N'BULK INSERT ZIPCodes FROM ''' +
@filepath +
N''' WITH (FIRSTROW = 2, FIELDTERMINATOR = '','', ROWTERMINATOR = ''\n'')'
EXEC sp_executesql @bulkinsert