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                                    | mcuprykYak Posting Veteran
 
 
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                                            |  Posted - 2014-02-01 : 14:12:20 
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                                            | I have the following:<code>SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ONGOSET ANSI_PADDING ONGOCREATE TABLE [dbo].[itweb_GeoNames](	[GeonameID] [int] NOT NULL,	[Name] [nvarchar](200) NOT NULL,	[AnsiName] [varchar](200) NULL,	[AlternateNames] [nvarchar](max) NULL,	[Latitude] [float] NOT NULL,	[Longitude] [float] NOT NULL,	[FeatureClass] [char](1) NULL,	[FeatureCode] [varchar](10) NULL,	[CountryCode] [char](2) NULL,	[CC2] [varchar](60) NULL,	[Admin1Code] [varchar](20) NULL,	[Admin2Code] [varchar](80) NULL,	[Admin3Code] [varchar](20) NULL,	[Admin4Code] [varchar](20) NULL,	[Population] [bigint] NOT NULL,	[Elevation] [int] NULL,	[GTopo30] [int] NULL,	[Timezone] [varchar](50) NULL,	[ModificationDate] [datetime] NULL) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]GOSET ANSI_PADDING OFFGOI would like to extract the data into the following formateven if there are duplicate citiesSET ANSI_NULLS ONGOSET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ONGOCREATE TABLE [dbo].[Location](	[Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,	[Country] [nvarchar](max) NOT NULL,	[City] [nvarchar](max) NOT NULL,	[State] [nvarchar](max) NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT [PK_Location] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (	[Id] ASC)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY]) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]GO</code>Any help would be awesome. |  |  
                                    | visakh16Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
 
 
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                                          |  Posted - 2014-02-02 : 11:48:23 
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                                          | Can you explain rules for converting data to your output? Cant relate source to destination table------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/https://www.facebook.com/VmBlogs |  
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