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 New to DTS, help needed to create new package!

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Jaybee from his castle
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Posted - 2004-04-19 : 11:14:57
Hi all,

I was wondering if it were possible to automate the following processes:

Have a DTS package unzip a winzipped csv file in my Outlook inbox, import the contents to a new table according to the existing layout of the csv (rather like the 'Select Into' command in SQL Server), and every subsequent day append the contents of a new, zipped csv (which will always have the same layout) into the database.

I suspect it'd be simpler to manually import the first file, along with the in-process creation of the table, in advance of the first running of the package. The biggest problem I foresee is getting the package inside Outlook, which would keep the csv file in a .dbx file, I believe.

I'd be grateful for some tips, and perhaps an overview of how I should go about this.

Thanks in advance,



JayBee
   

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