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Personal Computer Today I was faced with a challenge where one of my team members accidentally dropped a table. Restoring the
• MD 686, Retro table structure was no problem because we keep structure scripts, but the data was an issue. We did not want to
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Recording Podcasts came up with the fix the problem. They export the table to a csv file on the Desktop and import the CSV file back
into the repaired database.

The CSV file creation method is very simple. Actually, I think it is too simple because it really does nothing to
take account of non text characters etc. For my table, that was OK; for general use I think some work needs to
Data Export & be done there.
Import Tool
Easy and Fastest Please note that in the reload script I faced two challenges. The first was that the table had an identity column.
way to load data Normally, one cannot set the value of an identity field manually. However, to restore the table values correctly, I
to/from CSV files &
Databases
needed to. The solution was the IDENTITY_INSERT property set (see the code). The second challenge is a bug
www.dbload.com in the ADODB implementation. One of the columns was SQL Variant. Now, "" in the CSV file can be created by
an empty String but is interpreted as NULL. This can be fixed by checking the field value coming from the CSV
derived record set and changing NULL to "". But, due to the bug, "" will not load into the field - arrrrg! The solution
was to substitute a known nonsense String for NULL and then change all instances of that String to '' using an
Compare data of
SQLServer UPDATE SQL statement.
Compare and
Synchronize data Export Script
of SQL Server
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www.devart.com Option Explicit
Dim rs,fieldVals,dbConnIn
Dim connectString,shell,tmp,fso,ts,line
Convert XML to
Excel(XLS) Const adOpenDynamic=2
Shred XML to
Tables. Export to Const adLockPessimistic=2
XLS MDB, CSV. Const adCmdTable=2
Free Trial, US$105 Const adOpenForwardOnly=0
to buy Const adOpenStatic=3
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Const adLockReadOnly=1

SQL Scripter ' The connect string should be changed to fit the db in use
Generate T-SQL ' here I am using TCP tp connect to SQL Server 2005
data scripts, connectString="Provider=SQLNCLI;Server=127.0.0.1;Database=dv;Uid=*****;Pwd=*****;"
Export to Set dBConnIn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
CSV/Text, PDF,
Excel, CSV to SQL dBConnIn.Open connectString
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Set rs=CreateObject("ADODB.RecordSet")
rs.Open _
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dbConnIn, _
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adLockReadOnly, _
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Set shell=CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set fso=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set ts=fso.OpenTextFile(shell.SpecialFolders("Desktop") & "\" & "T_MchnPrps.csv",2,T
line=""
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line=line & tmp.Name & ","
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ts.WriteLine Left(line,Len(line)-1)
While Not rs.EOF
line=""
For Each tmp In rs.Fields
line=line & """" & Replace(tmp.Value,"""","""""") & ""","
Next
ts.WriteLine Left(line,Len(line)-1)
rs.MoveNext
Wend

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ts.close

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Part of the csv file

MchnId,Sequ,Type,Data,Prnt
"1","1","1","RBSManuf0","1"
"1","2","2","IBM T42","1"
"1","3","3","RBSSerl0","1"
"2","4","1","RBSManuf1","1"
"2","5","2","IBM T42","1"
"2","6","3","RBSSerl1","1"
"3","7","1","RBSManuf2","1"
"3","8","2","Dell PP04S ","1"
"3","9","3","RBSSerl2","1"
"4","10","1","RBSManuf3","1"
"4","11","2","","1"
"4","12","3","RBSSerl3","1"
"5","13","1","RBSManuf4","1"

Import Script

Option Explicit
Dim rsOut,rsIn,dbConnOut,fieldVals,dbConnIn,i
Dim connectString,shell,tmp,fso,ts,line,fieldPost,fieldValues

Const adOpenDynamic=2
Const adLockPessimistic=2
Const adCmdTable=2
Const adOpenForwardOnly=0
Const adOpenStatic=3
Const adLockReadOnly=1

' The connect string should be changed to fit the db in use

' here I am using TCP tp connect to SQL Server 2005
connectString="Provider=SQLNCLI;Server=127.0.0.1;Database=dv;Uid=*****;Pwd=*****;"
Set dBConnOut = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
dBConnOut.Open connectString
dbConnOut.Execute "DELETE FROM T_MchnPrps"
dbConnOut.Execute "SET IDENTITY_INSERT T_MchnPrps ON"

Set rsOut=CreateObject("ADODB.RecordSet")
rsOut.Open _
"T_MchnPrps", _
dbConnOut, _
adOpenDynamic, _
adLockPessimistic, _
adCmdTable

Set shell=CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Set dBConnIn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")

dbConnIn.Open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _
"Data Source=" & shell.SpecialFolders("Desktop") & ";" & _
"Extended Properties=""text;FMT=Delimited;HDR=yes"";"

Set rsIn=CreateObject("ADODB.RecordSet")
rsIn.Open _
"T_MchnPrps.csv", _
dbConnIn, _
adOpenStatic, _
adLockReadOnly, _
adCmdTable

Redim fieldPos(rsIn.Fields.Count-1)
Redim fieldValues(rsIn.Fields.Count-1)
i=0
For i=0 To rsIn.Fields.Count-1
fieldPos(i)=i
Next

While Not rsIn.EOF

For i=0 To rsIn.Fields.Count-1
fieldValues(i)=rsIn.fields(i).Value
If IsNull(fieldValues(i)) Then fieldValues(i)="-#%REMOVE%#-"
Next
rsOut.AddNew fieldPos,fieldValues
rsIn.MoveNext
Wend

rsIn.Close
rsOut.Close
dbConnOut.Execute "UPDATE T_MchnPrps SET Data='' WHERE Data='-#%REMOVE%#-'"
dbConnOut.Execute "SET IDENTITY_INSERT T_MchnPrps OFF"
WScript.Echo "Import Complete"

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

works well with a view too

12:26 PM

Alex Turner said...

thanks for the feedback :)

12:29 PM

Anonymous said...

Although if you use a view, views don't sort, even though they look like they should, so you have to sort the view
once you have the view results back.

You also need to connect to the database slightly differently.

'CONNECT TO DATABASE
set oConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
oConn.Open "your connection goes here"
set rs = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rs.ActiveConnection = oConn

dim strsql
strsql = "select * from vwMyView order ID ASC"

rs.Source = strsql
rs.open()

Set shell=CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
etc. as before

12:40 PM

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