As a followup on this discussion - if you have SQL 2005 you will find SSIS will do a lot of casting automatically ( properly formatted character fields to uniqueidentifiers, for example ) I was having trouble with it, but that seems to have been an installation issue and now I find it a big improvement over DTS and certainly over the upsizing wizard. Worth giving it a look if you have it, as it will work with SQL 2000 databases as well.
>>Just some quick thoughts. I've used it, but nearly always construct either a VFP program or use DTS to transfer production data in the end.
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>I've ended up using a hybrid approach. The upsizing wizard tranfered the data structure better, but the SQL Server Import Wizard does the data better and faster.
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