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NULL all blank recordsets in my SQL Sever 2005 table

Tags: SQL SERVER 2005
I have a table which I created by importing a flat file (using SSIS).  The table is set to all nvarchar datatypes at the moment.  I would like to convert the columns of the table into specific datatypes mosty numeric.  However before I do this I would like to convert all the blank spaces into NULLS.  

In addition, I would like to be able to perform a CREATE > INSERT a New Table out of this data and cast all the columns to numeric datatypes, while leaving the blanks NULL and not '0'.



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Zone: Microsoft
Question Asked By: RunnerNwizard
Solution Provided By: mofoworking
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