March 21, 2001 05:21 PM

Format File Overview

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John Green
SQL Server Magazine
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The first two lines of the format file contain the version number of the bulk copy program (bcp) that the format file was created to use (8.0 for SQL Server 2000's bcp) and the number of data columns in the data file, respectively. Each remaining line defines the correspondence between one data field in the file and one column in the SQL Server table. Each of these lines must contain the following eight fields of information:

  1. The number of the field in the data file (starting with 1...

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Looking for the format of BCP's native (-N) binary file. I have solved most datatypes but am stuck on floats. Basically, if you export a float value, say for example a real datatype 1.0 - how is it encoded and stored in the binary file? The value in the file for a decimal 1 is 80 3F hex.. what is that? (note - field delimiter is the number of bytes used to store the field if it allows nulls)

Ben 4/28/2004 4:18:29 PM

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