Just recently after an a production database upgrade to a 64-bit SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM (from SQL 2000), the same SSIS 2008 package that exports data from SQL Server 2000 to a flat file (csv/txt) started to wrap all data fields with _x0022_ hexadecimal characters. The CSV file that was extracted is not totally worthless especially if it's already taken hours to produce that file. We can … [Read more...]