create fixed width file using BCP

• Jeff Moden

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  August 23, 2006 at 10:09 pm

  #656487

  Ok... I get it... David Burrows beat me to the punch... take a look at his posting... I think that may be what you want.  When you re-import, you'll probably need to make a format file.  Based on everything I've seen, so far, you should be able to export or reimport at a rate of about 10K rows per second (.6 million rows per minute).

  If you need to control the individual columns widths of the output, you'll need a control file for the BCP output, as well (or you can brute force conversion in the output query or view).

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