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                                    | mcuprykYak Posting Veteran
 
 
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                                            |  Posted - 2013-08-12 : 12:35:06 
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                                            | I have the following file that I need to convert to sql any help would be great.    Record:             NAME_REC    of File:            NAME_REC    Organization:       INDEXED    Type:               RMS    Open:               USER_DAT:NAMES.DAT    Record Format:      Fixed    Supersede:          No    Record Size:        110 Bytes-- Record Contents --    Item                                 Type            Size  Occ  Offset    RECORD_STATUS                        CHARACTER          1            0    CREATE_USERNAME                      CHARACTER         12            1    CREATE_DATE                          CHARACTER          8           13    CREATE_TIME                          CHARACTER          4           21    EDIT_USERNAME                        CHARACTER         12           25    EDIT_DATE                            CHARACTER          8           37    EDIT_TIME                            CHARACTER          4           45    PRIME_NAME                           CHARACTER          1           49   _PRIME_ALIAS                          CHARACTER          1           49    USER_SEX                          CHARACTER          1           50    USER_NAME_STRUCT                  CHARACTER         50           51    .LAST_NAME                           CHARACTER         25           51    .GIVEN_NAMES                         CHARACTER         25           76    USER_NUM                          ZONED UNSIGNED     9          101-- Index Contents -- ** SEX is a 60 byte  REPEATING PRIMARY ASCENDING  index **    Segment                              Type            Size    USER_SEX                          CHARACTER          1    LAST_NAME                            CHARACTER         25    GIVEN_NAMES                          CHARACTER         25    USER_NUM                          ZONED UNSIGNED     9 ** USER_NUMBER is a 35 byte  REPEATING ALTERNATE ASCENDING  index **    Segment                              Type            Size    USER_NUM                          ZONED UNSIGNED     9    PRIME_NAME                           CHARACTER          1    LAST_NAME                            CHARACTER         25Any help would be awesome. |  |  
                                    | jeffw8713Aged Yak Warrior
 
 
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                                          |  Posted - 2013-08-12 : 14:20:19 
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                                          | There is no straight conversion of that type of file - you need to use your VMS system to export the data from that file into a delimited text file that you can then copy to the SQL Server system and import. |  
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