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 BCP error?

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kathunter
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35 Posts

Posted - 2002-01-30 : 20:55:21
I use a client SQL Enterprise to update a table in our romote database. I wanted to use BULK INSERT but it was looking on the servers hard drive and not the client I was on. So I moved to bcp. I tried the following:

C:\>bcp "db.dbo.neworders" in "c:\neworders.txt" -U"username" -P"password"

I received an error:
...
SQLState = 08001, NativeError = 6
Error = [Microsoft][ONBC SQL Server Driver][Named Pipes] Specified SQL server not found.
SQLState = 01000,NativeError = 2
Warning = [Microsoft][ONBC SQL Server Driver][Named Pipes]ConnectionOpen (Create File())
...
What does this mean?

I should have taken the blue pill

robvolk
Most Valuable Yak

15732 Posts

Posted - 2002-01-30 : 22:02:00
You didn't specify the server name using the -S parameter on the bcp call. I don't remember if it defaults to (local) or not, but you can't go wrong with explicitly putting the server name on the command line.

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