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 Importing a text file

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rookie_sql
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

443 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-07 : 10:24:07
Hi i've a txt file which i want to import into a excel file or a access db table, via DTS SQL 2000, the problem is, the extract i get has only double quotes example "text" "text" and no coma between them just a space. can any one help ?


sanjnep
Posting Yak Master

191 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-07 : 10:34:14
You can use replace function to replace "text" to text so you may insert on text. select replace("text",'"','').
Thanks

Sanjeev Shrestha
12/17/1963
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rookie_sql
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

443 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-07 : 10:42:40
I can't run the select replace as my data is in a txt file, or maybe i can ? can you explain ?
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sanjnep
Posting Yak Master

191 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-08 : 09:08:27
I mean before inserting to actual table you can run replace function by using execute sql task.
Thanks Sanjeev
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mwjdavidson
Aged Yak Warrior

735 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-08 : 09:32:35
If you're using a Data Pump task, can't you specify the double quote as a text qualifier then make the delimiter a space character? (Sorry It's been a while since I used it, and I don't have access to DTS to check since we moved over to SS 2005).

Mark
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