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.

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 ...

How to Import an Excel Spreadsheet Into Access With a Macro. If you ever wanted to click a magic button and make complex business tasks happen automatically, macros can make that wish come true.

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack RC0, a collection of stand-alone install packages which bring additional value to SQL Server 2008.