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VFP wizard has one nice feature it comes with source code. So you can change the way it works if there is such need.


>Which wizard would work best when converting from VFP to SQL Server? The VFP Upsizing wizard or the one inside SQL Server?
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>>Hi Bret,
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>>The preferable way to deal with empty dates is to convert them to Nulls. The alternative is to store dates as character strings in SQL Server.
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>>>We are currently trying to convert a VFP database to SQL server using the wizards on SQL Server. THe problem we see is that SQL Server does not like empty date fields. Is the a way to get around this? We have quite a few tables where there is nothing in the date field.
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>>>As a side question, does anyone have any other conversion pitfall tips I may need? So far I see the Empty date and a numeric field where VFP allowed data in but SQL states it has problems.
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>>>Any help would be appreciated.
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