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all groups > sql server dts > april 2005 > threads for april 29 - 30, 2005

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Extracting data from Excel
Posted by Schnof at 4/29/2005 9:37:42 PM
HI, Can anyone tell what I'm missing to be able save an excel workbook to text format using dts. Excel_WorkBook.SaveAs "E:\EXcelData\rabbit.txt" Which save's it fine , but I need to be able to set the format for this to be done properly Regards Andrew...more >>


bcp
Posted by Hoosbruin at 4/29/2005 6:20:40 PM
I'm using BCP with queryout and exporting data from a table to a .csv file. Using this as a template it works fine but is there anyway to get the column headings along with the data. I'm using this method because I can create different output filenames. I have a DTS to do this but I can't ...more >>

When importing text file, order of lines are all messed up
Posted by pelican at 4/29/2005 2:36:01 PM
Hello everyone, I am using the "import" function in SQL to import a big text file to SQL. It will import all the lines, except that starting from line 989, it just to a line way down at the bottom of the text file, line 70987. Isn't it strange? I thought the import function will read fro...more >>

SMTP in my database server
Posted by Ray5531 at 4/29/2005 2:11:06 PM
I basically need to send emails from MY DTS packages and also some of my stored procedures.There is no way of having any MAPI compliant software installed on the productions database server,so I came up with the idea of installing an SMTP server and use the extended stored procedure introduced h...more >>

import data from Excel
Posted by Ava at 4/29/2005 12:14:04 PM
I have mixed data in one Excel column (integer and string). If the integers on the top I can only import integers and all string values will be NULL. If the string values on the top I can only import strings but the integers will be NULL. Is there any way to import mixed data? Thanks for any ...more >>

increament primary key when reading each line of text
Posted by pelican at 4/29/2005 11:46:06 AM
Hello, I have a text file that needs to be read into SQL. I can read the file alright, but I have problems adding a primary key to the SQL table and make it increament automatically. If I read the text file into a new table, the primary key is not created. If I created an empty table and...more >>

import text file with long strings
Posted by pelican at 4/29/2005 9:04:02 AM
Hi! I have a text file over 70000 lines, some lines are long some are short. I tried to import this text file into SQL, but all it did was to take the shortest line as the width and truncated the long times. Though I have in the "transform" to change the field to varchar and length to 100...more >>

DTS file import
Posted by hector.caban NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 4/29/2005 7:49:54 AM
Hello everyone, I am importing a flat file using dts. I notice that if there is an error in the file, the transactions are rolled back. I need to import each row as a transaction in itself. How do I do that ? For example if the There are 2000 rows and 1 row is bad then 1999 rows should be impor...more >>



Excel Export, 255 Char Truncation and Destination Column Definitions
Posted by alasdair at 4/29/2005 3:11:56 AM
I have a DTS package which exports from a SQL table to an Excel spreadsheet - nothing tricky so far. The (SQL Server) source table contains several columns which have more than 255 chars of data. When I created the destination worksheet in DTS Designer, I specified LongText as the data type for ...more >>


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