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Posted - 06/15/2005 :  07:58:56  Show Profile  Visit AskSQLTeam's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Gary writes "I am consistantly given a .txt file with thousands of numbers. I use these numbers in a query, and have to go through each line inserting a comma after each number. As you can imagine, I don't necessarily 'dig' this process, and would like to refer to the txt file from within the query without having to modify the information. I've had some friends tell me how to do this through writing a seperate application, but can't this be done through using just a query?


Gary Vickery"

JimL
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Posted - 06/15/2005 :  08:11:56  Show Profile  Visit JimL's Homepage  Reply with Quote
How do you know where one number starts and another ends so you can put in the comma?

Jim
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Edited by - JimL on 06/15/2005 08:12:11
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JimL
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Posted - 06/15/2005 :  08:40:37  Show Profile  Visit JimL's Homepage  Reply with Quote
My Guess is these these are tab seperated.
Use bulk insert to drop the .txt into a SQL table then query that table.

Jim
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