There are times when you may find yourself needing to drop many tables in your database but not all. Some criteria defines what must go. It could be archived tables, tables before or after a certain date time stamp, dummy data tables, etc.
Let’s look at 2 simple methods for dropping lots of tables in your database.
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The Scenario: you have a spreadsheet, CSV file, or some other delimited flat file and need to load that into a database. There are many options to load data into SQL Server; however, a quick method I am fond of is to use Microsoft Excel and manipulate the data to craft insert statements then paste into SSMS and execute.
Read on to see how to parse and load a CSV flat file, character delimited flat file, and columnar text.