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error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) up vote 0 down vote favorite Im having an issue using a bulk insert command for bringing a .csv into a database. Here is a sample of the CSV I created Here is the query i wrote: BULK INSERT TBL_Staging FROM 'C:\Users\testdata.csv' With (FieldTerminator = ',', RowTerminator= '\n', KEEPNULLS); This is getting me the following error bulk load sql message(s): Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 1, column 1 (Id). Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 2, column 2 (InvoiceHeaderId). Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 sql sql-server csv bulkinsert share|improve this question asked Oct 21 '15 at 12:46 slevin37 316 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 2 down vote The first row of your CSV data contains column headers, and the error message is because SQL Server is trying to insert your header row as data. Either remove the column header row or specify FIRSTROW=2 BULK INSERT TBL_Staging FROM 'C:\Users\testdata.csv' With (FIRSTROW=2, FieldTerminator = ',', RowTerminator= '\n', KEEPNULLS); For the benefit of others who might read this without seeing the asker's data - the FIRSTROW=2 parameter workaround only works if your header row really does have the same number of columns and delimiters as your data - which in this case it did - but otherwise would error. Edit: I notice that your data also has
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can’t insert to specific columns. If, for example, there are five columns in a table you should have five values for each record in the text file you are importing from. This is an issue when you are expecting default values to be inserted into tables. Let us say you have table as below: In this table, you are expecting ID, Status and CreatedDate to be updated automatically, so your text file may only have FirstName LastName values as below: Dinesh,Asanka Saman,Liyanage Ruwan,Silva Susantha,Bathige Jude,Peires Sanjeewa,Jayawickrama If you use bulk insert to this table like follows, You will be returned an error: Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 1, column 1 (ID). To avoid this you will need to create a view with the columns you are expecting to fill and use bulk insert against it. If you check the table now, you will see table with values in the text file and the default values. ASK A QUESTION Tweet Array FAQ, General DBA BULK INSERT, Importing Data, SSIS 3 Responses to "Importing data from text file to specific columns using BULK INSERT" balance Reply May 31, 2011 at 2:09 pm Should the view be modified if there's a comma in the FirstName or LastName fields? How should that be handled? Eric Olson Reply July 7, 2011 at 2:19 am Commas are so common in text fields. I prefer to use pipe | as a delimiter. Line 5 of the bulk insert would become: FIELDTERMINATOR = ‘|', BigPhil Reply December 4, 2013 at 10:30 am SSIS actually uses BULK INSERT to load data, if the Fast Load option is selected. So the "Bulk insert is much faster …" statement is misleading, as it implies that different mechanisms are involved when using BULK INSERT. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Popular Latest Tags Setting up Transactional Replication in SQL Server 2008 R2. November 30, -0001 Backing Up a SQL Server Database Directly Onto a Remote Server November 30, -0001 Recovering a SQL Server Database from Suspect Mode November 30, -0001 SQL Server T-SQL Tuning - NOT IN