This post was authored by Tara Raj and Vinson Yu, Program Managers – SQL Server Team We are excited to announce the public preview availability of two new command line tools for SQL Server: The ...

Virtualize CSV file with PolyBase [!INCLUDE sqlserver2022-and-later] [!INCLUDE sssql22-md] can query data directly from CSV files. This concept, commonly referred to as data virtualization, allows the ...

Good old FTP and flat file import will do the trick reliably and never take a day off. Here are the basic steps to automate an FTP download in Windows followed by a CSV insert into MS SQL Server.

Load data from CSV into Azure SQL Database or SQL Managed Instance (flat files) [!INCLUDE appliesto-sqldb-sqlmi] You can use the bcp command-line utility to import data from a CSV file into Azure SQL ...