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How to Maintain dataTypes in Integration

How to maintain datatypes when you are getting data from flat files sources and dumping the data into a table in sql server. satish.e
Hi Satish,
Probably you would like to cast it to appropriate type before inserting to table which is conventional way of mainitaining datatypes. Cheers
Sat

You could take help of BCP too in this case and make use of FORMATFILE option, other follow as suggested above or input the rows to a temp.table and perform the relevant computations – provided the source file is not changed. Satya SKJ
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