RE: Bulk Insert with Dates – SQLServerCentral

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August 23, 2011 at 6:04 am

#1371911

some of your dates are not dates...probably blank strings for death date(a reasonable assumption would be not all patients die or get transferred)

something like this:

...

CASE

WHEN ISDATE(SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 41, 8)) =1

THEN CONVERT(datetime,SUBSTRING(BulkColumn, 41, 8)) ELSE NULL

END AS deathdate,

...

you'll need to do that for any of the columns that might be empty strings i think.

Lowell

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