Hi,
Every search hit that I found told me that I need the "Microsoft text driver" to access CSV file directly. And here is the sample code within SSMS:
select*fromopenrowset('MSDASQL' ,'Driver={Microsoft Text Driver (*.txt; *.csv)}' ,'select * from C:\Temp\test1.CSV')However, when i tried that, I got the error:
OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "(null)" returned message "[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified".Msg 7303, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "(null)".
Further searching reveals that the driver might comes from
Microsoft Access Database Engine
"http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=13255"
Having installed it and restarted my DB server instance, I'm still getting the above error.
How can I get it going?
PS. I also found another method to access CSV file directly,
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/22369513-1b4a-40c4-974a-bd641e1ae129/
but that is not under SSMS, but C#. Can I do the same thing under SSMS?
Thanks