We have an ancient AS/400 730 system that still houses some old budget/financial data. We'd like to decommission this box, and migrate the data to a SQL server.

Importing data from Excel to SQL Server requires going back in time, so to speak. Yes, back to 32-bits at runtime.

Flat File Import into SQL Server Now that you’ve automated the fetching of your flat file via FTP, the next step is to automatically import that file into SQL Server.