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Is it possible to store .fmt file right in database like stored procedure, not in separate file?
Imported files varies, format file is constant for the procedure. No BLOBs, no FILESTREAM used.
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FROM OPENROWSET (
BULK 'd:\path\some_variable_file.txt',
FIRSTROW = 2,
FORMATFILE = 'd:\path\importformat.fmt'
) AS import
OPENROWSET does not support any source besides the file system for FORMATFILEs. One option you could do is store the format file data (in either the non-xml or xml format) in a database and extract it with a powershell script