Looking for ideas about doing a one-time data extraction from a CSV (which was generated from Adobe PDFs)
The data represents an insurance policy. 30% of the columns - which have column headers that correspond to field names - represent columns that will be imported into the policy table. The remainder of the columns are a flat representation of child tables.
prop1, prop2, prop3, prop4 should be extracted to four rows of the prop table ( as well as the key representing the policy, of course )
ai1, ai2, ai3 etc ditto.
One-time conversion to sql server database. Any suggestions on the best way to iterate the 500 or so rows of the CSV to create 500 policy records and their associated child data.
TIA
Charles Hankey
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