In article <08CD1781F85AD4118E0800A0C9B8580B094A74(at)NEZU>, "Jeff Eckermann"
<jeckermann(at)verio(dot)net> wrote:
> Also:
> * Watch out for embedded tabs and carriage returns in your data: these
> will cause problems during or after your COPY into PostgreSQL. * Check
> the value used in the exported file to represent NULL values (could be
> an empty string, or "NULL", or something else), and use that in your
> COPY statement: "COPY table from stdin with null as 'whatever';"
My experience is that MSSQL7 will export (bcp) NULLs
as an ASCII zero character. Not pretty. You'll want
to put together a little PERL script to fix that.
Gordon.
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