Bcp and Bulk Insert not working

Hello,

I have been trying to load a delimited data file to SQL Server. I
have tried both of the options that are available: each time, I get
different errors. This is on an eval version of SQL Server 2K, with
SP 3a on a Windows XP box.

First, I tried to load the data with Bulk Insert. This didn't go
through as it requires sysadmin/bulkadmin privileges. I am the only
person using the SQL Server, and I wanted to grant myself those
privileges. But I cannot find them using the Enterprise Manager. All
I see is privileges like datareader, datawriter, etc.

Then I tried to use bcp. This doesn't seem to work either as it gives
the following error:

ERROR: DB Code: (CR001): SQLState = 08001, NativeError = 17
Error = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does
not exist or access denied.
SQLState = 01000, NativeError = 53
Warning = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionOpen
(Connect()).
child process exited abnormally

Anybody with a solution to make this work? For reference, I am using
the following bcp command. I can login to the database using the
server/user/password combination with no problem:

C:/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/80/Tools/Binn/bcp.exe
testUser.products
IN
"C:/Documents and Settings/testUser/products.txt"
-f "C:/Documents and Settings/testUser/prodformat.txt"
-t "-" -r "\r\n"
-S"sqlserver_eval" -U"testUser" -P"password" -R -k -h TABLOCK"php newbie" <newtophp2000@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I have been trying to load a delimited data file to SQL Server. I
> have tried both of the options that are available: each time, I get
> different errors. This is on an eval version of SQL Server 2K, with
> SP 3a on a Windows XP box.
> First, I tried to load the data with Bulk Insert. This didn't go
> through as it requires sysadmin/bulkadmin privileges. I am the only
> person using the SQL Server, and I wanted to grant myself those
> privileges. But I cannot find them using the Enterprise Manager. All
> I see is privileges like datareader, datawriter, etc.
> Then I tried to use bcp. This doesn't seem to work either as it gives
> the following error:
> ERROR: DB Code: (CR001): SQLState = 08001, NativeError = 17
> Error = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does
> not exist or access denied.
> SQLState = 01000, NativeError = 53
> Warning = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionOpen
> (Connect()).
> child process exited abnormally
>
> Anybody with a solution to make this work? For reference, I am using
> the following bcp command. I can login to the database using the
> server/user/password combination with no problem:
> C:/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/80/Tools/Binn/bcp.exe
> testUser.products
> IN
> "C:/Documents and Settings/testUser/products.txt"
> -f "C:/Documents and Settings/testUser/prodformat.txt"
> -t "-" -r "\r\n"
> -S"sqlserver_eval" -U"testUser" -P"password" -R -k -h TABLOCK

Regarding the bulkadmin role, it sounds like you may be looking at database
roles, not server roles - bulkadmin is in EM under Security, Server Roles.
If you can't access it there, then you're not connected as a sysadmin, so
you should connect as a sysadmin and add testUser to that role.

As for the connection issue, there are a few possible reasons - see "Client-
or Application-Related Causes" in this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...KB;EN-US;328306

If the article doesn't help to resolve your issue, I suggest you post again
with some more information, in particular if your XP box is on a network or
not, which protocols you configured the server to listen on (see Server
Network Utility), and which tools you have successfully connected to the
server with as testUser (eg. Query Analyzer, osql.exe).

Simon|||another thing to try is to create a DTS package to insert the data for
you.
1.) connect to the server with a login, pw
2.) select file(source)
3.) highlight both, left click onthe server icon, and pick "transform
data".
4.) double click on teh blue line
5.) verify tab one is pointing to the text file. hit preview to verify
that it will insert as desired. if not, go to properties of text file
icon.
6.) create table by "create table from source"
7.) make sure each column is represented and has an arrow pointing to
each other.
click on go.

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