I am bcp-ing in a fixed-width file. A lot of the fields are blank (space filled). When I bcp the file in (the table fields are varchar) how can I have the table store a zero length string instead of spaces?? To this point I have had to run update queries. Is there a way to trim on the way in??
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BCPing in a fixed width file
- Thread starter goman
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My guess is that if the columns are defined as VarChar, it really won't make any difference, as SQL Server is smart enough to optimize the storage.
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