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Nov 20, 2012 at 14:51 comment added MoonKnight Why? Basically, the SP is casting Empty.Strings to nulls to get around BCP putting the ASCII CHAR(0)/Nul character in the output file. Running SELECT * FROM [2BSHAEOS]..[B1A]; as the query works. I think you are right and this is occuring due to the fields specified in the format file being of an incorrect order as the fields output by my SP - this goes from bad to worse! You should see the SP that creates the .fmt file!!
Nov 20, 2012 at 14:33 comment added John K. N. True. How did I miss that one.
Nov 20, 2012 at 14:33 comment added Remus Rusanu A bcp out format file specified that a column should be skipped. This is not allowed. Either create a view containing only the desired columns and bcp out from that view, or use the -Q flag to provide a SELECT statement selecting only the desired columns.. The problem is your format file.
Nov 20, 2012 at 14:30 vote accept MoonKnight
Nov 20, 2012 at 14:18 history answered Remus Rusanu CC BY-SA 3.0