Now that you’ve automated the fetching of your flat file via FTP, the next step is to automatically import that file into SQL Server. To do this, we’ll use an SQL Server Agent Job.

Stored procedure XML This screenshot lists the source of a SQL Server 2014 stored procedure hitting the AdventureWorks2012 database, selecting data from the Customer and SalesOrderHeader tables.

This tells the request how to authenticate against the FTP server. The URI provided to the request object will include the file name you want to upload or download.

The standard approach since the version 3.0 release is to use the file upload facilities built into the Servlet API. But for developers who still maintain older code bases -- or perhaps for projects ...

We have an ancient AS/400 730 system that still houses some old budget/financial data. We'd like to decommission this box, and migrate the data to a SQL server. The data won't be modified or ...