Hi,

I read the posts here and the MS articles and installed the upgrade adviser.

They don't seem to have any other alternative than in-place(not for 32bit-64bit upgrade) or...

I tried that, the suggestions are all off compared to the database no better than DT_STR 50. I still get hundreds of validation and overflow errors...

On column 74 of 367...

Thanks

Well, this worked:

DECLARE @CMD VARCHAR(8000)

SET @CMD = 'BCP SYMITAR..ACCOUNT IN C:\test\ACCOUNT.txt '

SET @CMD = @CMD + '-t~ -r/n -e "C:\test\error.txt" -f C:\test\ACCOUNT.fmt...

Thanks for the reply.

This is SQL Server 2005 Express installed on my PC. Doing the 'dir C:\test\' showed the files and had no effect

as did 'CD C:\test\' had no effect...