Hi Namshub,
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I have a field that contains the date as a string yyyymmdd format, although the table structure is varchar(8) when the csv runs it converts it back to a numerical column (without "") Is this an issue with their extract?
I don't think so.
However, your expression can be evaluated as a number, I guess therefore SQL Server implicitely does so. Use CAST or CONVERT to explicitely make it a varchar
Cheers,
Frank