Wednesday, May 4, 2005

When is Ragged Right right for Fixed-length files?


It's natural to expect that if you have a Fixed Length file, that you should choose the SSIS Fixed Length file type. But Fixed Length is really for binary files, where there are no CRLF characters at the end of the lines. If you have a fixed length text file, and want to eliminate the delimiter, use Ragged Right flat file, and for the final column, specify CRLF as the delimiter.


- Reed


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