>I'm on a bleeding edge mission here. I have many older FPD apps that get data from Oracle on a nightly basis. We have found that an occasional oracle job(s) are failing, and we are being proactive in doing the same data construction from a SQL Server 2000 Data Warehouse.
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>Question is :
>How do you post .NULL. dates into a FPD type 2.6 dbf where the dates are EMPTY(), {}, ' / / ' ?
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>I am currently running the Agent to a VFP 6 table / DBC copy of the production 2.6 system. That accepts null. I then scan through and change the 6 date fields on the fly and insert them into the 2.6 version of the table.
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>Has anyone done this in SQL Server with out an VFP.EXE to clean the data?
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I don't think you will be able to do this without a VFP middle piece. SQL Server does not accept empty dates, period.
Dan LeClair
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