Format Files?

• ouertani neked

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  May 5, 2004 at 12:18 pm

  #152135

  

  Hi every Body

  I'm trying to do a Bulk insert from a text file containing this kind of data:

  9|Certainesaaaaaaaaaaa|A00-B99

  9|Maladiesbbbbbbbbbbbb|A00-A09

  into a table having this structure:

  "GL_Id" int identity not null,

   "GL_Type" "smallint not null,

   "GL_Label" " varchar(8) l" null,

   "GL_Code" " varchar(254)" null,

  as you see I don't include the ID of the table in the file, so i wan't use the KEEPIDENTITY option, and I'm using this Format file with 0 values and no Terminator for the ID column to skip the importing of the ID column, so the system can use the identity increment (DBCC..):

  8.0

  4 

  1    SQLCHAR    0    0     ""       1    GL_ID  SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_Bin

  2    SQLCHAR    0    7    "|"      2     GL_Type  SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_Bin

  3    SQLCHAR    0    64    "|"     3    GL_Label SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_Bin

  4    SQLCHAR    0    16    "\n"    4    GL_Code  SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_Bin

  But then the sytem brings this error (sorry for thr french version):

  Serveur : Msg 4882, Niveau 16, État 1, Ligne 8

  Insertion en bloc impossible. Longueur de préfixe, longueur ou fin de champ requises pour la colonne source 1 dans le fichier de format 'c:\GlFormat.fmt'.

  thank you for any help, or example of a correct format file

  Cheers

   

   

    

• bp

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  May 5, 2004 at 1:58 pm

  #505367

  below is link to example of format file:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adminsql/ad_impt_bcp_9yat.asp