Not a ColdFusion specific question, other then that I will write some 
ColdFusion templates to report the data once I have it imported.  But 
the HOF groups are just such a great resource.

It has been quite some time since I have worked with SQL Server.  I 
would like to import a large (~673MB) text log file into a table.  The 
fields in the text file are space[ ] deliminated.  The first two fields 
are a date string and a time string.  I would like to combine these two 
fields into a single datetime field in the database table.  I am finding 
this surprisingly difficult to do.  There does not seem to be any way to 
concatenate the first two fields of the text file into one field with 
the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard in the SQL Server Management Studio.

I have a bulk loader example that would theoretically import this data 
as well, but it also assumes a one to one relationship between the text 
fields and the table fields.
BULK INSERT dprmisc.iis.weblog1 FROM 'c:\IIS Tools\preplog\allsites.log' 
WITH ( FIELDTERMINATOR = ' ', ROWTERMINATOR = '\n' )

I could probably write a SQL insert statement, but I don't know how to 
access a flat text file with SQL inside the Management Studio tools.

Any help or sugestions would be appreciated, or do I just have to give 
up on this dream and seperate the date and the time values in the 
database table?


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