Subject Re: [firebird-support] Loading Fixed-length, external Files
Author Ann W. Harrison
Hugh Purcell wrote:
> I've been looking at GBAK as a way to load external flat files (fixed length
> fields) into a Firebird table. I haven't figured out how to accomplish
> this.

Whatever the answer may be, it's not gbak. The "native" way to handle
the files would be to define an external table in the database that maps
to the file - don't forget the EOL indicator - then copy the data from
the external file to the internal table.

Regards,


Ann