Hi. I've heard there is a way to import the format (rather that typing it out in connection mgr) of a fixed width flat file. What r the general steps or where is there a set of instructions online? I generally have a txt doc with column
names (lots of them) , widths etc that I would use for import and could easily transfer them to a spreadsheet if necessary. So far the word import is bringing up a lot of unwanted subject matter in my web searches. I am spending a lot
of time typing out flat file formats in conn mgrs and am thinking it may be worth a look at ssis's ability to "import" a format. We generally land our data in "untyped" staging tables 1st so ssis could assume everything is string.
I dont really want to read my records as one long string and parse them later.
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