BCP question

Hi Guys
I have a client who was having issues importing from a text file (Created by
there mainframe ) into SQL server, using DTS it would only import a certain
number of the rows (like 10 000 out of a million) we hare now trying to use
BCP and see the following problem below:
C:\>bcp CARD..AVAAF_ABSA_Employee in
c:\1ECLS_EMP.txt -fc:\1formatfile.fmt -Sman
netjie -Usa -Ppassword
SQLState = S1000, NativeError = 0
Error = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]I/O error while reading BCP
format file
This is the format of the clients format file:
8.0
25
1 SQLCHAR 2 2 "\0" 0 num1
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
2 SQLCHAR 2 7 "\0" 10 Employee_no
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
3 SQLCHAR 2 7 "\0" 1 AB_Number
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
4 SQLCHAR 2 30 "\0" 3 Surname
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
5 SQLCHAR 2 20 "\0" 4 Name SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
6 SQLCHAR 2 10 "\0" 2 Initials
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
7 SQLCHAR 2 20 "\0" 0 num2
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
8 SQLCHAR 2 50 "\0" 11 EmailAddress
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
9 SQLCHAR 2 12 "\0" 0 num3
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
10 SQLCHAR 2 10 "\0" 0 num4
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
11 SQLCHAR 2 40 "\0" 0 num5
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
12 SQLCHAR 2 4 "\0" 0 num6
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
13 SQLCHAR 2 40 "\0" 0 num7
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
14 SQLCHAR 2 20 "\0" 5 TelephoneNumber SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
15 SQLCHAR 2 20 "\0" 7 FaxNumber SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
16 SQLCHAR 2 12 "\0" 6 CellularNumber SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
17 SQLCHAR 2 56 "\0" 0 num8
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
18 SQLCHAR 2 40 "\0" 9 DomicileAdddress SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
19 SQLCHAR 2 40 "\0" 0 num9
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
20 SQLCHAR 2 10 "\0" 0 num10
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
21 SQLCHAR 2 4 "\0" 0 num11
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
22 SQLCHAR 2 40 "\0" 0 num12
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
23 SQLCHAR 2 40 "\0" 0 num13
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
24 SQLCHAR 2 2 "\0" 0 num14
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
25 SQLCHAR 2 16 "\r\n" 15 Province SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
I cannot find any info on this error message , has anyone got any ideas,
this is SQL server 2000 SP3
Thanks
Dylan
Have you checked the event log to verify you are not getting Disk I/O
errors?
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"Dylan Kruger" <carmellobear1@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Guys
> I have a client who was having issues importing from a text file (Created
by
> there mainframe ) into SQL server, using DTS it would only import a
certain
> number of the rows (like 10 000 out of a million) we hare now trying to
use
> BCP and see the following problem below:
>
> C:\>bcp CARD..AVAAF_ABSA_Employee in
> c:\1ECLS_EMP.txt -fc:\1formatfile.fmt -Sman
>
> netjie -Usa -Ppassword
>
> SQLState = S1000, NativeError = 0
>
> Error = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]I/O error while reading BCP
> format file
>
> This is the format of the clients format file:
>
> 8.0
> 25
> 1 SQLCHAR 2 2 "\0" 0 num1
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 2 SQLCHAR 2 7 "\0" 10 Employee_no
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 3 SQLCHAR 2 7 "\0" 1 AB_Number
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 4 SQLCHAR 2 30 "\0" 3 Surname
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 5 SQLCHAR 2 20 "\0" 4 Name SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 6 SQLCHAR 2 10 "\0" 2 Initials
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 7 SQLCHAR 2 20 "\0" 0 num2
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 8 SQLCHAR 2 50 "\0" 11 EmailAddress
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 9 SQLCHAR 2 12 "\0" 0 num3
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 10 SQLCHAR 2 10 "\0" 0 num4
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 11 SQLCHAR 2 40 "\0" 0 num5
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 12 SQLCHAR 2 4 "\0" 0 num6
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 13 SQLCHAR 2 40 "\0" 0 num7
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 14 SQLCHAR 2 20 "\0" 5 TelephoneNumber
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 15 SQLCHAR 2 20 "\0" 7 FaxNumber
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 16 SQLCHAR 2 12 "\0" 6 CellularNumber
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 17 SQLCHAR 2 56 "\0" 0 num8
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 18 SQLCHAR 2 40 "\0" 9 DomicileAdddress
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 19 SQLCHAR 2 40 "\0" 0 num9
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 20 SQLCHAR 2 10 "\0" 0 num10
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 21 SQLCHAR 2 4 "\0" 0 num11
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 22 SQLCHAR 2 40 "\0" 0 num12
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 23 SQLCHAR 2 40 "\0" 0 num13
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 24 SQLCHAR 2 2 "\0" 0 num14
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> 25 SQLCHAR 2 16 "\r\n" 15 Province
SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
>
>
> I cannot find any info on this error message , has anyone got any ideas,
> this is SQL server 2000 SP3
>
> Thanks
> Dylan
>
|||I have not as i thought it would be unlikely that it owuld be that , but i
will check it anyways ,
Thanks
"Gregory A. Larsen" <greg.larsen@.netzero.com> wrote in message
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> Have you checked the event log to verify you are not getting Disk I/O
> errors?
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> "Dylan Kruger" <carmellobear1@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> by
> certain
> use
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
> SQL_Latin1_General_Cp437_BIN
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|||hi Dylan,
I to am getting the same error of bcp you getting. Did you find the cause...if so please let me know.
Thanks
Arzan
"Dylan Kruger" wrote:

> I have not as i thought it would be unlikely that it owuld be that , but i
> will check it anyways ,
> Thanks
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