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Importing Tab Delimited Text File to an Existing Table in Access
Office 2007, just upgraded from 2000 ( OMGOODNESS!! What a flippin'
NIGHTMARE!!) I am simply trying to import a tab delimited text file into an existing table in Access. In Office 2000, I was given an opportunity to change the data type of columns to be imported during the import process itself. In 2007, I am not given an option and end up with import errors for every single row of data (over 1.5 million rows) because it reads a text field of numbers as a number datatype. I can find no documentation on how to solve my problem as Microsoft only provides information for importing Excel files. Having well over a million rows, I cannot maintain the data in an Excel file. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Rita Brasher Project Engineer FedEx Express PS Here I thought I wasn't as productive as I could be because I was behind on Office revisions. That was a joke!! Would maintaining a semblance of similarity have been too much to ask??? If the simplest of functions are going to all become difficult, I may have to go back to 2000. |
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Importing Tab Delimited Text File to an Existing Table in Access
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Often, the safer approach to import is to import data into a "temporary" table, one you reserve for importing the data to. Then you can run a series of queries the parse that raw import data into the proper, well-normalized Access tables. The problem with a lot of raw import tab delimited text file "data" is that it is NOT well-normalized. If you're going to get the best use of Access features/functions, you need to feed it data it works with best. Regards Jeff Boyce Microsoft Access MVP -- Disclaimer: This author may have received products and services mentioned in this post. Mention and/or description of a product or service herein does not constitute endorsement thereof. Any code or pseudocode included in this post is offered "as is", with no guarantee as to suitability. You can thank the FTC of the USA for making this disclaimer possible/necessary. "Rita Brasher" wrote in message ... Office 2007, just upgraded from 2000 ( OMGOODNESS!! What a flippin' NIGHTMARE!!) I am simply trying to import a tab delimited text file into an existing table in Access. In Office 2000, I was given an opportunity to change the data type of columns to be imported during the import process itself. In 2007, I am not given an option and end up with import errors for every single row of data (over 1.5 million rows) because it reads a text field of numbers as a number datatype. I can find no documentation on how to solve my problem as Microsoft only provides information for importing Excel files. Having well over a million rows, I cannot maintain the data in an Excel file. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Rita Brasher Project Engineer FedEx Express PS Here I thought I wasn't as productive as I could be because I was behind on Office revisions. That was a joke!! Would maintaining a semblance of similarity have been too much to ask??? If the simplest of functions are going to all become difficult, I may have to go back to 2000. |
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Importing Tab Delimited Text File to an Existing Table in Access
when I use the wizard to import text files (External Data, Import text File)
and setup the import (using Advanced options if necessary), it offers many different options to change the data type for each column, and then I can build a query to filter out any junk or convert values and rename the fields. Is this saved as a .csv file? "Rita Brasher" wrote: Office 2007, just upgraded from 2000 ( OMGOODNESS!! What a flippin' NIGHTMARE!!) I am simply trying to import a tab delimited text file into an existing table in Access. In Office 2000, I was given an opportunity to change the data type of columns to be imported during the import process itself. In 2007, I am not given an option and end up with import errors for every single row of data (over 1.5 million rows) because it reads a text field of numbers as a number datatype. I can find no documentation on how to solve my problem as Microsoft only provides information for importing Excel files. Having well over a million rows, I cannot maintain the data in an Excel file. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Rita Brasher Project Engineer FedEx Express PS Here I thought I wasn't as productive as I could be because I was behind on Office revisions. That was a joke!! Would maintaining a semblance of similarity have been too much to ask??? If the simplest of functions are going to all become difficult, I may have to go back to 2000. . |
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Importing Tab Delimited Text File to an Existing Table in Access
These are .txt files, tab delimited. If I'm importing to an existing
table, which I am, I get NO options for changing data types. Hitting the "Advanced" button only shows the fields to be imported with no data type associated. I had NO problem importing in any of the previous versions of Office. On 2/3/2010 8:07 AM, Maarkr wrote: when I use the wizard to import text files (External Data, Import text File) and setup the import (using Advanced options if necessary), it offers many different options to change the data type for each column, and then I can build a query to filter out any junk or convert values and rename the fields. Is this saved as a .csv file? "Rita Brasher" wrote: Office 2007, just upgraded from 2000 ( OMGOODNESS!! What a flippin' NIGHTMARE!!) I am simply trying to import a tab delimited text file into an existing table in Access. In Office 2000, I was given an opportunity to change the data type of columns to be imported during the import process itself. In 2007, I am not given an option and end up with import errors for every single row of data (over 1.5 million rows) because it reads a text field of numbers as a number datatype. I can find no documentation on how to solve my problem as Microsoft only provides information for importing Excel files. Having well over a million rows, I cannot maintain the data in an Excel file. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Rita Brasher Project Engineer FedEx Express PS Here I thought I wasn't as productive as I could be because I was behind on Office revisions. That was a joke!! Would maintaining a semblance of similarity have been too much to ask??? If the simplest of functions are going to all become difficult, I may have to go back to 2000. . |
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