no solution found until now, I'm afraid.

I tried several other fora as well, but with no success.

The number of records varies.

But i've solved it by making the variable mapping go to a string type, instead of a integer type

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(which sounds actually totally counter logical, because the...

I think your way will work out, but I will leave the code I have, as it is working at this moment.

(never change a winning team)

correct, i needed to enter my servername. although i thought it wasn't needed (because it is the local machine), i had to enter it as it SQLExpress

furthermore yoou have to...

found the error : since it was SQLexpress, It seems I have to enter the servername

syntax will look like this :

bcp "SELECT line from WMSFSTD42.dbo.t_conversion_lines order by line_number"...

Well, I can login on my DB using windows authentication.

Is there a difference then??