RE: Bulk Insert with Dates – SQLServerCentral

Lowell

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August 23, 2011 at 5:51 am

#1371897

since you have everything in a staging table, shouldn't you just convert the columns explicitly?

-- Substring input patient

set @SQL = N'SELECT

CONVERT(int,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 1, 4)) AS patid

,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 5, 1) AS patflag

,CONVERT(datetime,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 6, 8)) AS yob

,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 14, 6) AS famnum

,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 20, 1) AS sex

,CONVERT(datetime,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 21, 8)) AS regdate

,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 29, 2) AS regstat

,CONVERT(datetime,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 31, 8)) AS xferdate

,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 39, 2) AS regrea

,CONVERT(datetime,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 41, 8)) AS deathdate

,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 49, 1) AS deathinfo

,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 50, 1) AS accept

,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 51, 1) AS institute

,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 52, 2) AS marital

,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 54, 1) AS dispensing

,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 55, 2) AS prscexempt

,CONVERT(datetime,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 57, 8)) AS sysdate

into ' + @tblname + ' FROM #stage'

exec TestDB..sp_executesql @SQL

Lowell

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