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  • August 6, 2011 at 2:38 pm

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    anand_vanam (8/6/2011)

    Hi all

    I am facing hard time in configuring the BCP command to to import data from txt file (Pipe as Field terminator)into SQL Table.

    As the TAB is the default field terminator for BCP. And My source file is | (Pipe delimited file)

    I tried this

    BCP Work.dbo.Customer IN "\\MyMechine\Shared\Cust.txt" -T -S "SQLSERVER" -t|

    Am I missing some thing here.

    Please help me.

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