>I'm assuming from your message you don't want to try SSIS - in SSIS 2012 I'm pretty certain this can be done.
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>Update: I see Naomi referred to a prior post where this might have been done before.
Okay, this just came to me in a vision. I am iterating an array latables. I also have a dbf tablesql with tablename and sql (M) where I am putting the select string I build to get the data into a cursor that will then be used to create the COPY TO
I am checking the data type of each field and adding it to the SQL statement accordingly ( dates and datetimes transformed with TTOC() etc)
The primary key of eveyr table is a UID.
My thought is for M data type, if the length of the memo is > 254, instead of selecting the contents of the memo (with placeholders for CHR(13)+chr(10)) to in the select statement I put a symbol of somekind + column number ( I am iterating the laflds ) .
For every row where there is a memo > 254 I write it out to a txt file named GUID+column number
once I have all that in SQL, any VARCHAR(MAX) with the symbol will read a textfile named PK+(code in imported memo data) +.txt into the column for that row.
Should be pretty easy to write.
Will report back
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