Re: Importing directly from BCP files

On 11/16/2015 11:13 AM, Tim Uckun wrote:
> I don't see any documentation anywhere about the BCP format and as I
> said googling for "BCP format" gives a zillion links about the format
> files. Every project on github just calls out the BCP command but I am
> on linux and that doesn't help me at all.
>
> Bummer. This is going to be a huge pain to try and import these files.

On openSuSE 13.2

sudo zypper install freetds-tools

Ubuntu 14.04

sudo apt-get install freetds-bin

aklaver(at)killi:~> freebcp -h
usage: freebcp [[database_name.]owner.]table_name {in | out} datafile
[-m maxerrors] [-f formatfile] [-e errfile]
[-F firstrow] [-L lastrow] [-b batchsize]
[-n] [-c] [-t field_terminator] [-r row_terminator]
[-U username] [-P password] [-I interfaces_file] [-S server]
[-v] [-d] [-h "hint [,...]" [-O "set connection_option on|off,
...]"
[-A packet size] [-T text or image size] [-E]
[-i input_file] [-o output_file]

example: freebcp testdb.dbo.inserttest in inserttest.txt -S mssql -U
guest -P password -c

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Adrian Klaver
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