BCP Import Error- numbers interpreted as ascii

• clarcombe

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  November 1, 2003 at 3:32 pm

  #358503

  Trying to import the following line using bcp

  1;1;Tiger Woods;64;25.7;296;1,152

  with the format file

  7.0

  7

  1 SQLINT 0 4 ";" 1 THISWEEK

  2 SQLINT 0 4 ";" 2 LASTWEEK

  3 SQLCHAR 0 100 ";" 3 PLAYER

  4 SQLINT 0 4 ";" 4 ROUNDS

  5 SQLFLT8 0 8 ";" 5 PERCENTAGE

  6 SQLINT 0 4 ";" 6 BIRDIES_EAGLES

  7 SQLINT 0 4 "" 7 HOLES_PLAYED

  but it messes around with the integers so that it looks like it converts it to ascii

  THISWEEK LASTWEEK PLAYER ROUNDS PERCENTAGE BIRDIES_EAGLES HOLES_PLAYED

  ----------- ----------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- ----------------------------------------------------- -------------- ------------

  49 49 Tiger Woods 13366 4.5739369936478948E-315 3553586 892415025

  Using the command

  c:\mssql7\binn\bcp pga..PGA_PARBREAK in d:\parcheck.txt -S c

  larcombe -U sa -P -f PGAPARBREAK.fmt -t ;

  Anyone know how to get around this at all ?

  TIA

• David Burrows

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  November 3, 2003 at 6:21 am

  #480623

  Use SQLCHAR for the input fields, sql server will convert where necessary. SQLINT expects the data to be binary.

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