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Bulk Insert Error

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Nitu
Yak Posting Veteran

81 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-02 : 11:10:44

Hi,

I have this statement in my procedure


BULK INSERT Database1.dbo.tmpTable FROM '\\Server1\subfolder1\subfolder2\CSVFile1.csv' WITH ( FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',ROWTERMINATOR = '\n')

I get this error.


Could not bulk insert because file '\\Server1\subfolder1\subfolder2\CSVFile1.csv' could not be opened. Operating system error code 5(Access is denied.).

However, i saw in some posts, to try to open this file from start->Run. Its opening the file without any problems.

I havent used BulkInserts before. So iam quite lost in debugging this error. Can someone help me on this.

Thanks in advance,
Nitu

nr
SQLTeam MVY

12543 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-02 : 11:20:35

try
master..xp_cmdshell 'dir \\Server1\subfolder1\subfolder2\CSVFile1.csv'
and
master..xp_cmdshell 'dir \\Server1\subfolder1\subfolder2\'

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Nitu
Yak Posting Veteran

81 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-02 : 11:29:37

I ran
master..xp_cmdshell 'dir \\Server1\subfolder1\subfolder2\CSVFile1.csv'
on the query analyzer
I got this result set,


output (header)

Access is denied.
NULL

!!!

Thanks for your help,
Nitu

nr
SQLTeam MVY

12543 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-02 : 11:39:44

That'll be the sql server service account that needs access.

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DTS can be used in a similar way.
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Nitu
Yak Posting Veteran

81 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-02 : 11:45:31

Ok, then i might need to talk to my Sys Admin about that.

Thanks for you help.
--Nitu

X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-02 : 12:28:04

Why not just have the file placed on the server that you are working on?

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Nitu
Yak Posting Veteran

81 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-02 : 13:48:10

X002548, You are absolutely right. I also thought i will try that and it worked fine.

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