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  • November 12, 2013 at 9:54 am

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    Lowell (11/12/2013)

    here's my linked server example for a 64 bit folder full of text files that may help:

    Very cool. I've not actually used the ACE drivers, yet (had other problems that would take too long to explain) but now I have a great example for how to use them to solve the ragged-right problem.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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    How to post code problems
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