Bulk Insert Errant File

Hello Again,
It's been a troublesome day. I'm trying to import a file with the normal manual import process. Import formats and maps are good. The issue is file system provisioning and behavior I've not seen before.
The location is using Bulk Insert.
When the xxxxxxxxxxxx.tmp file is created, it is being created in C:\Document and Settings\AdminUserID\LOCALSETTINGS\Temp.
One would first think that the application was created with an app path that does not conform to UNC. It does. \\servername\AppFolders\ApplicationX
Why would it choose this location to create the temp file? Usually the .tmp file is created right inside the inbox...
Very confused, appreciate the help.
-Richard

We have an ORACLE DB.
In the past I have seen where the Database service/user doesn't have permissions to the file system and that will create an error.
However, even in those situations the Bulk Insert *.tmp file is created in the application's Inbox. This is completely different as the .tmp file is being created in the System Admin user's Document and Settings folder. I don't even know where it is getting a reference to this folder.

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Hi lgnusLumen,
According to your description, you use BULK INSERT to import data from a data file to the SQL table. However, to be usable as a data file for bulk import, a CSV file must comply with the following restrictions:
1. Data fields never contain the field terminator.
2. Either none or all of the values in a data field are enclosed in quotation marks ("").
In your data file, the quotes aren't consistent, if you want to prevent the quotes "" from loading in the bulk insert, I recommend you use SQL Server Import and Export Wizard tools in SQL Server Express version. area, it will allow to strip the
double quote from columns, you can review the following screenshot.
In other SQL Server version, we can use SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to import data from a flat file (.csv) with removing the double quotes. For more information, you can review the following article.
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1316/strip-double-quotes-from-an-import-file-in-integration-services-ssis/
In addition, you can create a function to convert a CSV to a usable format for Bulk Insert. It will replace all field-delimiting commas with a new delimiter. You can then use the new field delimiter instead of a comma. For more information, see:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/782353/sql-server-bulk-insert-of-csv-file-with-inconsistent-quotes
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I use bulk insert to fill a table
I use code bellow
bulk insert dbo.test
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go
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<FIELD ID="2" xsi:type="CharFixed" LENGTH="2"/>
<FIELD ID="3" xsi:type="CharFixed" LENGTH="6"/>
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<FIELD ID="5" xsi:type="CharFixed" LENGTH="13"/>
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<COLUMN SOURCE="5" NAME="R4" xsi:type="SQLBIGINT"/>
<COLUMN SOURCE="1" NAME="R5" xsi:type="SQLVARYCHAR"/>
<COLUMN SOURCE="3" NAME="R9" xsi:type="SQLVARYCHAR"/>
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go
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I have a group of csv files that i am bulk inserting into my sql table. They are varying lengths, but the last seven lines of every file are not lines of data that comply with the format of my table and are causing insert errors. I know i can
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close c1
deallocate c1
--Extras
--delete from ALLFILENAMES where WHICHFILE is NULL
--select * from ALLFILENAMES
drop table ALLFILENAMES

You could do a SELECT COUNT(*) FROM OPENROWSET(BULK), but you would need a format file that specifies a single-field record format with \r\n as the terminator. With the COUNT(*) you could determine the correct value for LASTROW.
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