Good old FTP and flat file import will do the trick reliably and never take a day off. Here are the basic steps to automate an FTP download in Windows followed by a CSV insert into MS SQL Server.

I have a daily generated csv file that I'm going to have its contents inserted into tables in our SQL Server database. I can open the csv as a recordset in ADO, but I'm not sure how I open a ...

Now that I have shown you how to create a .CSV file, I want to show you how to import a .CSV file into PowerShell. I will cover that in Part 2 here.