Posted by John Bell on 08/06/06 09:45

Hi

I suggest that you use the wizard to create the DTS package initially and
then add workflow that will optionally truncate the destination table
depending on the values initially read from the file and then re-read the
file to insert the data. To read the same row multiple times see
http://www.sqldts.com/default.aspx?266 and to skip a task see
http://www.sqldts.com/default.aspx?214

John



<blackd77@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> This system is running MS SQL server 2000.
>
>
> black...@hotmail.com wrote:
>> What I would LIKE to do is noted in the subject line. What I'm finding
>> is that "edit SQL" appears to only be an option if I am creating a
>> table. If I select "append to" the option to edit SQL shades itself as
>> unavailable.
>>
>> The reason I'd like this is that there is a datum in the flat file that
>> indicates whether that record should be appended to that table noted
>> above. There are other ways of dealing with this "problem" but it would
>> be nice to be able to control it using SQL, in the DTS import/export
>> wizard.
>>
>> If the source of my data is an SQL table, I can generate an SQL query
>> to specify what fields to import in an append, to check for existing
>> values, etc...
>>
>> Is there a way around this? I can reserve a table for data transfers,
>> regularly overwrite it with new data from text file inputs, and use SQL
>> to insert select fields from that transfer table to other database
>> tables. (From this "transfer" table, data needs to be inserted into
>> four separate tables in our database).
>>
>> I hope this is clear. If it CAN'T be done this way, it's okay...just a
>> little ugly with the need to re-create the transfer table.
>

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