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[Srdan Dukic <srdan.dukic AT gmail.com>]

I see. So how would you do that? I've been looking at the freebcp man
page[1] but can't really see any option or example of how to specify
that any identity fields should be ignored. In the load file I've
tried setting a '0' and also tried setting it to 'NULL', '?' and just
leaving the field blank, but with these approaches, it gives me an
error:

Msg 20073, Level 2
Attempt to bulk copy a NULL value into a Server column which does not
accept null values

Thank you

[1] http://linux.die.net/man/1/freebcp

On 30 January 2010 03:19, Bob Hetzel <beh AT case.edu> wrote:
> It's actually my understanding that if you don't turn on identity insert,
> you have to actually tell it to ignore any identy fields in your load file.
>
>   Bob
>
> Srdan Dukic wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Srdan Dukic <srdan.dukic AT gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> We've recently upgraded from SQL Server 2005 to 2008 and have
>>>> encountered a strange error when trying to use freebcp to insert data
>>>> into a table. The table schema is identical, the only thing having
>>>> changed being the version of ms sql.
>>>>
>>>> The error is:
>>>>
>>>> Msg 2627, Level 14, State 1
>>>> Server 'ARCHIVESERVER', Line 1
>>>>        Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_log_failure'. Cannot
>>>> insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.log_failure'.
>>>> Msg 2627, Level 14
>>>> General SQL Server error: Check messages from the SQL Server
>>>>
>>>> Msg 3621, Level 0, State 0
>>>> Server 'ARCHIVESERVER', Line 1
>>>>        The statement has been terminated.
>>>> 10 rows copied.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The primary key field is a 'bigint', and is also an identity
>>>> specification with a seed of 1 and an increment of 1 (pretty
>>>> standard).
>>>>
>>>> When I insert, the the id field I put a '0' (zero), the actual line
>>>> being:
>>>>
>>>> 0       B7/EA-09234-2552D5B4    2010-01-25 00:00:02     3       65535
>>>>  0               [Log text line here]
>>>>
>>>> Where the first value is the 'id'column in question.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone had this problem before?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you
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>> On 29 January 2010 16:54, Robert Hetzel <beh AT case.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> There is an identity insert property which may be different than you
>>> expect.  If it's set to allow you to insert values in that field rather
>>> than
>>> auto-generate a value, then that would explain the key violation.
>>>
>>>  Bob
>>
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> I'm running the command without the '-E' flag which I believe is the
>> one which allows you to insert pre-generated values into the table. I
>> *want* the database engine to generate the 'id' column, but I'm still
>> getting this error.
>>
>>
>



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