RE: Is it possible to create tables Dynamically using Cursors from another table with csv values

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April 22, 2013 at 6:36 am

Jeff Moden (4/22/2013)
ChrisM@Work (4/19/2013)
This is an unusual transport file with metadata (partial, column names only) and data as string on the same row.
BWAAAA-HAAA!!!!! I say the same thing everytime I have to use XML. 😛

XML is worse ! This thing only agonisingly repeats the column name once per row 😛

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