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Oct 6, 2004

I have a request from a vendor to export data out of my SQL Server 2K database view to a 'flat fixed file'.

What kind of file is this exactly, not a .csv ? Does EM have the capabilities through the DTS wizard, by choosing the output to a text file and fixed width ?

Thank you

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Hi,
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I use a view as source (using a OLEDB connection manager) and I can see the data without problem.

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When I create the file connection manager, there's no way to mention the row delimiter. In the properties I see a "Row Delimiter" field and when I try with "{CR}{LF}" it makes no difference. Interesting to note that, contrary to the HeaderRowDelimiter field, the RowDelimiter field has no drop-down control to give choices.

So I had to return the CRLF as the last field of the source view (SELECT .... ,'CRLF' = CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) FROM ...) to make it work.

Seems odd... Is it the way to go?

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