Posted by tha_mihau on 10/01/43 11:53

> First you need to decide in which format is the UID? It if is in text,
> you should specify SQLVARCHAR for the data type. Only if you have the
> UID as binary, you should specify SQLUNIQUEID.
>
> Even if you use SQLVARCHAR, I don't think SQL_VARLEN_DATA is correct.
> It depends on what's in delimiter, but since a GUIO is always 36
> characters (without braces), you could just as well specify 36 for the
> length.
>
>

Thanx Erland,

I tried the approaches you mentioned:

1. Using SQLVARCHAR instead of SQLUNIQUEID results in "[Microsoft][ODBC
SQL Server Driver]Invalid character value for cast specification". What
do you meas format of the UID? You mean in the input file? in the input
file it is in "text format", like presented in my first post.
2. Setting length (for SQLUNIQUEID) different then 16 results in FAIL
result in bcp_bind.
Setting different then 16 for SQLVARCHAR still results in
"[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Invalid character value for cast
specification" error

Still no good.

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