'SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF' on SQL Server

The SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF on SQL Server, among other things, it replaces null values with 'blank' character. It works with BULK-INSERT and INSERT statement on SQL Server.

 

However, with freebcp I expected it to work with -O option as provided in the example below. It does not seem to work, please advise?

 

 

I tried with and without format files, tds version 7.0 and 8.0. The database server is SQL Server 2005. I am using freebcp version 0.82 on Linux.

 

Version information:

$ /efs/dist/fsf/freetds/0.82-ml02/exec/bin/freebcp -v

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]

 

BCP Command:

freebcp dbname..tbname in /tmp/bcpFile.dat -O 'set ansi_warnings off' -S SQL_SERVER_NAME -U myself -P secret -c -t\|

 

 

Further details -

Here is the test table 

create table test_table (

  col1 varchar(2) not null,   

      col2 char(5) null,

      col3 varchar(10) null

)

 

More bcpFile.dat

a|b|c

|b|c                       ß First column is null should be padded with a blank character when inserted into test_table. But that is not the case, can someone help?

 

Thanks,

Gouda

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