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

Want to append the data from CSV file to the existing SQL Server table via command line on Windows?

Using mssql-cmd, you can append CSV/TSV/TXT data into existing SQL Server table easily and fast, no need to program.

Here you can download mssql-cmd Windows version.

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 Windows

1. In interactive mode:

mssql-cmd> load loadtype=append
      > table=media_messages 
      > datafile=f:\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=f:\media_messages.csv delimiter=, quote=" header=y quit=y

See parameters detail.

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