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For more years than most of us care to remember, the single most common source of external data facing an SQL Server developer or DBA was a text file. The inevitable consequence of the near ubiquity of the “flat” file is the minor ecosystem of tools and techniques that has grown over time to help us all load text file data sources into SQL Server.
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© 2012 Adam Aspin
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Aspin, A. (2012). Flat File Data Sources. In: SQL Server 2012 Data Integration Recipes. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4792-0_2
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