Posted by Thomas R. Hummel on 01/23/06 04:45

Thanks for the suggestion. I ended up appending a header record to the
file with a simple copy command in DOS. I had to make sure that the
column names were all "Col001", "Col002", etc. (and capitalization DID
matter) so that my existing DTS package would still work without trying
to remap all of the columns. Hopefully by next month they will actually
be populating the column with data, otherwise I will build this header
append into my package.

Thanks again,
-Tom.

Dimitri Furman wrote:
> As a kludgy workaround, you can try accessing the text file via ODBC rather
> than DTS native text file provider. This will effectively use MS Jet Text
> driver, which I believe does not have this problem. It will likely be
> slower, and you will need to set up a DSN on both your workstation, for
> development, and the server, for production runs of the DTS package.

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