Importing null values

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November 19th, 2003, 09:25 AM

dweatherston

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Importing null values

I'm importing data from a flat text file to an MS SQL database using VB6 ADO.

I have some fields that are empty. When I read them into a text string, they become empty strings, but I want them to show up in the db as <NULL> values. Is there a way to import the value as a null?

Thanks!

Doug

November 19th, 2003, 02:00 PM

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not sure how you could fix it on the import but you could always run a script to change blanks to nulls

update user_table
set column = null
where datalength(column) = 0

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