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Nov 19, 2006

Hi,

I'm importing an Access database to SQL Server 2000.
The issue I ran into is pretty frustrating... All Memo fields that get copied over (as Text fields) appear to be fine and visible in SQL Server Enterprise Manager... except when I display them on the web via ASP - everything is blank (no content at all).

I didn't have that problem with Access, so I ruled out the possibility that there's something wrong with the original data.

Is this some sort of an encoding problem that arose during database import?
I would appreciate any pointers.

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MS Access Memo Field To SQL Server Text Field

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Hi all,



i've a reasonable amount of experience with MS Access and less
experience with SQL Server. I've just written an .NET application that
uses an SQL Server database. I need to collate lots of data from around
the company in the simplest way, that can then be loaded into the SQL
Server database.



I decided to collect the info in Excel because that's what most people
know best and is the quickest to use. The idea being i could just copy
and paste the records directly into the SQL Server database table (in
the same format) using the SQL Server Management Studio, for
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Trouble is, i have a problem with line feed characters. If an Excel
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I've tried with MS Access too, copying and pasting the contents of a
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I've tried with 'text' or 'varchar' SQL Server database field formats.



Since i've no experience of using different types of databases
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transferring the data without getting this problem with the line feeds?
I don't want to spend hours writing scripts/programs when it's just
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cut'n'pasted in 5 seconds!



cheers

Dominic

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