I have a csv file with 3 columns
LastName
FirstName
EmpID
I was SQLLDR to load the data into Oracle database however I opted to use BCP to load the data into Azure sqlserver after the database migration to Azure SQL Server.
I am using the following command to generate the format
bcp Database.Schema.Persons format nul -c -t, -f Persons.fmt -S tcp:demo.database.windows.net -U User01 -P P@$$word!
It has following format
13.0
3
1 SQLCHAR 0 255 "," 1 LastName SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
2 SQLCHAR 0 255 "," 2 FirstName SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
3 SQLINT 0 255 "\r\n" 3 FirstName SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
However SQLLDR ctl file has the following functions
LPAD(:EmpID, 4, '0')
DATE "YYYY-MM-DD"
TIMESTAMP "YYYY-MM-DD-HH24.MI.SS.FF6"
NVL(:LastName, '')
How do I accommodate in the BCP format file?
How do I accommodate in the BCP format file?
You don't. BCP into a staging table and INSERT ... SELECT to your final table to apply transformations. Or stage the data in Azure Blob Storage and use INSERT ... .SELECT . . . FROM OPENROWSET to load the data into your target table.