Importing text with first column which is int

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ASKER

Well, the first col is numeric and the rest are text surrounded by double quotes.Fields are TABB delimited. SO when it reads it in it screws up on the field delimitation since the first col is numeric and not surrounded by double quotes.

I get this error:

Invalid delimited data : text quantifier must be followed by a column delimitor (except the last column).
Context: Error caalling OpenRowSet on the provider.

>>However, the first column contains numeric values and the DTS doesnt like this.<<
There should be no problem importing a numeric value without text delimiters, we do it all the time. Cosnider posting some sample data and the structure of the SQL Server table.

ASKER

I am using a DTS Import Wizard to read in data from a text file. The following is the first row of the text file

Customer_ID Title Last_Name First_Name Language Address Address2 City Province Postal_Code Last_Visit Recall_Date

1014 "MR" "MAY" "DOE" " " "111 ST W" "" "St. JOHN" "PEI" "H2K6TQ" 29-03-2004 29-03-2008

what row delimiter are you using in the file?

ASKER

CR LF

Now can we have the structure of the SQL Server table?

ASKER

Oh sorry. Here it is:
Customer_ID bigint
Title varchar(5)
Last_Name varchar(35)
First_Name vacrchar(35)
Language char(1)
Address varchar(50)
Address2 "
City varcchar(20)
Province vacrchar(2)
Postal_COde vacrchar(10)
Last_Visit smalldatetime
Recall_Date smalldatetime

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I have tried repeatedly to post the steps I took, unfortunately I am not having any luck. I repeatedly get "The page cannot be displayed".

Suffice to say, that I did not have any problems.

Is this supposed to be tab delimited or column aligned?

ASKER

tab delimited