Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 07/11/06 13:24

tha_mihau (mpietrzyk@autograf.pl) writes:
> 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.

The error message means that the string does not convert to a GUID.
This could be because you have not specified the appropriate length or
delimiter. I would try with 36 in length and no terminator.

> 2. Setting length (for SQLUNIQUEID) different then 16 results in FAIL
> result in bcp_bind.

Since you have text input, you should not use SQLUNIQUEID, unless you
convert the value in your program prior to passing it to BCP.

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