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Y2k problem when importing data
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01/03/2000 12:10:33
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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Thread ID:
00339860
Message ID:
00339895
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>I have a delimited ascii file that I am importing via the import wizard. The data has dates in the format 01/01/00 which I
>wish to represent as Jan 1, 2000. After the import, if I "set century on" the years all show as 1900 instead of 2000. What
>can I do to import this correctly?


I haven't used import wizard at all so don't know how it works. Instead define the structure yourself threating date columns as char(8). Append data delimited (or SDF). Then execute :
alter table myTable alter column myDateColumn d
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