1st off, You don’t need programming stuff. You can directly upload CSV files into SQL Database with SQL management tools. However, if you really need do it through programming, Just read below.
Personally, I think this approach is the most efficient and easiest way to do through programming.
In general, you can achieve it in two steps
1st step is to read the CSV file and hold the records as a DataTable.
2nd step is store the retrieved DataTable into SQL Database Table as a Bulk Entry
This is a function that returns CSV File Data as a DataTable. Call and Keep it in the memory and you can do whatever you want with it.
This function is going to return CSV Read file into DataTable.
private static DataTable GetDataTabletFromCSVFile(string csv_file_path)
{
DataTable csvData = new DataTable();
try
{
using(TextFieldParser csvReader = new TextFieldParser(csv_file_path))
{
csvReader.SetDelimiters(new string[] { "," });
csvReader.HasFieldsEnclosedInQuotes = true;
string[] colFields = csvReader.ReadFields();
foreach (string column in colFields)
{
DataColumn datecolumn = new DataColumn(column);
datecolumn.AllowDBNull = true;
csvData.Columns.Add(datecolumn);
}
while (!csvReader.EndOfData)
{
string[] fieldData = csvReader.ReadFields();
//Making empty value as null
for (int i = 0; i < fieldData.Length; i++)
{
if (fieldData[i] == "")
{
fieldData[i] = null;
}
}
csvData.Rows.Add(fieldData);
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
return null;
}
return csvData;
}
}
SQLBulkCopy – Use this function to insert the Retrieved DataTable into Sql Table
static void InsertDataIntoSQLServerUsingSQLBulkCopy(DataTable csvFileData)
{
using(SqlConnection dbConnection = new SqlConnection("Data Source=ProductHost;Initial Catalog=yourDB;Integrated Security=SSPI;"))
{
dbConnection.Open();
using (SqlBulkCopy s = new SqlBulkCopy(dbConnection))
{
s.DestinationTableName = "Your table name";
foreach (var column in csvFileData.Columns)
s.ColumnMappings.Add(column.ToString(), column.ToString());
s.WriteToServer(csvFileData);
}
}