I have to import the list of NGO from Romania to SqlServer.  Before seeing my solution , please do it yourself: the file could be found at http://www.just.ro/registrul-national-ong/ and the name is Asociatii

I have tried with SSMS – no luck ( text will be truncated, even when I put nvarchar(max))

The I tried with flat file from CSV  – same

Finally, I have solved with a little bit of VBA : first I have tried to write the insert into file and execute with sqlcmd. The file was too large, so sqlcmd does not report any errors( and not insert anything)

So the solution was to generate a batch file that have this

sqlcmd  -S . -E -d InfoRo -Q “INSERT INTO [dbo].[Asociatii$]  ([Denumire]  ,[Numar inreg Reg National],[pozitie inchisa (da/nu)],[Starea actuala],[Judet],[Localitate],[Adresa],[Asociati/Fondatori],[Scop],[Consiliu director],[Apartenenta federatie],[HG utilitate publica],[Data HG utilitate publica],[F14])values( ////)”

generated by this VBA script

Option Explicit

Sub x()
Dim startInsert As String

startInsert = "sqlcmd  -S . -E -d InfoRo -Q ""INSERT INTO [dbo].[Asociatii$]"
         startInsert = startInsert & "  ([Denumire]"
         startInsert = startInsert & "  ,[Numar inreg Reg National]"
           startInsert = startInsert & ",[pozitie inchisa (da/nu)]"
           startInsert = startInsert & ",[Starea actuala]"
           startInsert = startInsert & ",[Judet]"
           startInsert = startInsert & ",[Localitate]"
           startInsert = startInsert & ",[Adresa]"
           startInsert = startInsert & ",[Asociati/Fondatori]"
           startInsert = startInsert & ",[Scop]"
           startInsert = startInsert & ",[Consiliu director]"
           startInsert = startInsert & ",[Apartenenta federatie]"
           startInsert = startInsert & ",[HG utilitate publica]"
           startInsert = startInsert & ",[Data HG utilitate publica]"
           startInsert = startInsert & ",[F14])values("
           
           
           Dim i As Long, j As Integer, text As String
           Dim insert As String
           For i = 2 To 86813
            insert = insert & startInsert
            For j = Asc("A") To Asc("M")
                text = Sheet1.Range(Chr(j) & i).text
                text = Replace(text, vbCr, " ")
                text = Replace(text, vbLf, " ")
                text = Trim(text)
                 text = Replace(text, "'", "''")
                text = Replace(text, "  ", " ")
                
                insert = insert & "'" & text & "',"
            Next j
            insert = insert & "null)" & """"
            insert = insert & vbCrLf
            If (i Mod 150 = 0) Then
                Open "C:\Users\Surface1\Desktop\2Percent\a.bat" For Append As #1
                Print #1, insert
                Close #1
                insert = ""
            End If
           Next i
           If (Len(insert) > 0) Then
                Open "C:\Users\Surface1\Desktop\2Percent\a.bat" For Append As #1
                Print #1, insert
                Close #1
                insert = ""
            End If
          
           
          
           
     
End Sub