Inserting Bulk Data in SQL Server from Text file

There is a simple query to do this bulk insert in to sql server from a text file. The thing is that we have to keep a fully formatted text file with appropriate data’s which are to be inserted.

Here, we have a table to be inserted is,

The query for creating table,

CREATE TABLE Employee
(
FName varchar (100) NOT NULL,
LName varchar (100) NOT NULL,
Email varchar (100) NOT NULL
)

Then we have a text file with the bulk data’s like as follows,

vinoth,kumar,itvinoth83@gmail.com
emp1FName,emp1LName,emp1@company.com
emp2FName,emp2LName,emp2@company.com
emp3FName,emp3LName,emp3@company.com
emp4FName,emp4LName,emp4@company.com
emp5FName,emp5LName,emp5@company.com
emp6FName,emp6LName,emp6@company.com
emp7FName,emp7LName,emp7@company.com
emp8FName,emp8LName,emp8@company.com
emp9FName,emp9LName,emp9@company.com
emp10FName,emp10LName,emp10@company.com
emp11FName,emp11LName,emp11@company.com
emp12FName,emp12LName,emp12@company.com

Now the query for inserting bulk data is,

BULK INSERT Employee FROM 'c:\bulktext.txt' WITH (FIELDTERMINATOR = ',')

Now you can see the data's inserted in table by the select query as follows,

select * from Employee