Re: [GENERAL] Importing directly from BCP files

[Tim Uckun]

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> On openSuSE 13.2
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> sudo zypper install freetds-tools
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> Ubuntu 14.04
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> sudo apt-get install freetds-bin
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> aklaver@killi:~> freebcp -h
> usage:  freebcp [[database_name.]owner.]table_name {in | out} datafile
>         [-m maxerrors] [-f formatfile] [-e errfile]
>         [-F firstrow] [-L lastrow] [-b batchsize]
>         [-n] [-c] [-t field_terminator] [-r row_terminator]
>         [-U username] [-P password] [-I interfaces_file] [-S server]
>         [-v] [-d] [-h "hint [,...]" [-O "set connection_option on|off,
> ...]"
>         [-A packet size] [-T text or image size] [-E]
>         [-i input_file] [-o output_file]
>
> example: freebcp testdb.dbo.inserttest in inserttest.txt -S mssql -U guest
> -P password -c
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>From what I can make out this tool reads the BCP files and puts them into
an SQL server.  I need to either put them into a postgres server or to
output as plain text CSV files.