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duhaas
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
310 Posts |
 Posted - 2007-01-03 : 16:22:51
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| I want to export table lets say to a file, and I want the data to follow the data lengths defined by the rows. For example, I have a table with 4 columns (col1 - 9chars) (col2 - 2chars) (col3 - 4 chars) (col4 - 2 chars)so than col1 takes up position 1-9 in text file, col22 takes up position 10-11, col3 12-15, col4 16-17hope i am explaining this ok. |
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nr
SQLTeam MVY
12543 Posts |
Posted - 2007-01-03 : 16:30:14
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| seehttp://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/creating-csv-files-using-bcp-and-stored-procedures/to format the dataselect left(col1 + space(9),9) + left(col2 + space(2),2) + left(col3 + space(4),4) + left(col4 + space(2),2) from tblso (easier using a sp as in the article butmaster..xp_cmdshell 'bcp "select left(col1 + space(9),9) + left(col2 + space(2),2) + left(col3 + space(4),4) + left(col4 + space(2),2) from mydb..tbl" queryout c:\tbl.txt -T -c'==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.DTS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |
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duhaas
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
310 Posts |
Posted - 2007-01-03 : 16:33:21
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| Thanks, I appreciate the advice, I think I also just learned that I can just do a simple export dts package to a .txt file and that appears to leave everything in tact with spacing. Am i wrong? |
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russell
Pyro-ma-ni-yak
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Posted - 2007-01-03 : 16:35:28
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| DTS --in text file connection, tick fixed fieldin destination tab of transform data task, choose populate from source, then executein transformations tab, click ok |
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