How to create and populate a table in a single step as part of a CSV import operation?

Question

I am looking for a quick-and-dirty way to import CSV files into SQL Server without having to create the table beforehand and define its columns.

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Answer 1

Referencing SQLServerPedia, I think this will work:

sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
RECONFIGURE;
GO
sp_configure 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries', 1;
RECONFIGURE;
GO

select TerritoryID
      ,TotalSales
      ,TotalCost
INTO CSVImportTable
from openrowset('MSDASQL'
               ,'Driver={Microsoft Access Text Driver (*.txt, *.csv)}'
               ,'select * from C:\csvtest.CSV')