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Append CSV data to SQL Server table via command line on Linux

Shiji Pan

Want to append the data from CSV file to the existing SQL Server table via command line on Linux (Ubuntu/RedHat/CentOS…)?

Using mssql-cmd, a Command-Line client for SQL Server, you can append CSV/TSV/TXT data into existing SQL Server table easily and fast.

Support Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

Download mssql-cmd Linux version
mssql-cmd.linux-386.zip
mssql-cmd.linux-amd64.zip
mssql-cmd.linux-arm64.zip

No need to install SQL Server client library.

Convenient to deploy to cloud. No need to run installation file, just uncompress and run, immediately.

Append CSV/TSV/TXT data to existing SQL Server table via command line on Linux

1. In interactive mode:

mssql-cmd> load loadtype=append
      > table=media_messages 
      > datafile=/data/media_messages.csv 
      > delimiter=, 
      > quote=" 
      > header=y;

2. In batch mode:

mssql-cmd dsn="pan:withdata@192.168.0.102/test" task=load loadtype=append table=media_messages datafile=/data/media_messages.csv  delimiter=, quote=" header=y quit=y

See parameters detail.

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