Problem with BULK INSERT ASCII file into nvarchar column

Hi,

I have a problem with BULK INSERT. I created the following table:

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create table Test
(id char(4), name nvarchar(16), last char(1))

I am trying to bulk insert data from ASCII (not unicode) file with only two rows:

0011First name
0018Second name

Since it is a fixed length file, I am using the following format file:

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8.0
3
1 SQLCHAR 0 4 "" 1 ID HEBREW_CI_AS
2 SQLCHAR 0 16 "" 2 NAME HEBREW_CI_AS
3 SQLCHAR 0 0 "\r\n" 3 Last HEBREW_CI_AS

With bcp utility everything works just fine!

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bcp Demo.dbo.test in c:\test -T -f c:\test.fmt

But when I use BULK INSERT in the following form:

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BULK INSERT Test FROM 'c:\Test'
WITH
(
FORMATFILE='c:\Test.fmt',
CODEPAGE='OEM'
);

I am getting error

Server: Msg 4863, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Bulk insert data conversion error (truncation) for row 1, column 2 (name).

Now, one interesting thing: if I change the name field from nvarchar to varchar, it is working with BULK INSERT as well.

Can anybody explain what is going on here?

I am using MS SQL 2000 and MSDE

Thanks in advance,

Eugene.

Another thing is that if I set the format file to specify row delimiter for that nvarchar field, it will also work.

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8.0
2
1 SQLCHAR 0 4 "" 1 ID HEBREW_CI_AS
2 SQLCHAR 0 16 "\r\n" 2 NAME HEBREW_CI_AS

But then in the real system i can't have multiple fields within the file...

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On SQL2005 the problem does not exist! Then it seems like a bug in SQL2000!

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