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 BCP issue with Guid, SQL Server 2000 to 2005

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andrej351
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6 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-28 : 00:33:13
Hey everyone,

I'm having an issue trying to bulk export some data out of a SQL Server 2000 database to a text file, then import it into a SQL Server 2005 database.

My problem is i have a number of unique identifier columns which are all being exported WITHOUT the 4 dashes ie. 39A6EE1CE8CC4CA58B026969B9E45DB0 instead of 39A6EE1C-E8CC-4CA5-8B02-6969B9E45DB0. As a result they won't import straight into a uniqueidentifier column in my 2005 DB.

If i manually put in the 4 dashes IT IMPORTS FINE.


Does anyone have any idea why my export would be ommitting the dashes??

Any idea how i could import uniqueidentifiers that are valid aside from having no dashes in them??


More Details....

My export is a cmd line bcp out that looks like this: bcp table out file -c -T -S server

My import is a T-SQL script that looks like this:

BULK INSERT db.dbo.table
FROM 'C:\datafile.dat'
WITH
(
DATAFILETYPE = 'char',
KEEPIDENTITY,
TABLOCK
)

robvolk
Most Valuable Yak

15732 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-28 : 07:03:56
Please do not cross post:

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