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Copy To for SQL Bulk Insert
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07/03/2003 15:04:36
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00762958
Message ID:
00762968
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If file is not to big, you can STRTRAN empty dates to nulls.
STRTOFILE( STRTRAN( FILETOSTR("test.txt"), "/  /       :  :", "Null"), "Testnull.txt")
>We are using the following command to create the text file for a SQL bulk insert:
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>Copy To < filename > Delimited With "" With Character "|"
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>We need to be able to propagate nulls for datetime into the SQL but these are being converted to empty datetimes in the text file.
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>We can change nulls to a bogus date like {12/31/9999 12:00:00 AM} and reconvert to null once the data is brought into SQL.
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>Is there a way to preserve the null values as part of the copy to?
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>TIA
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