Yes Reeza, I see all the file names. In all from all these folders I have 1,102 .txt files to import. For the most part all the columns SHOULD be the same. I wished they would just get this into a database already. Last time I had to split it up. One person did our Medicare the other Medicaid. Different populations although there are duals. Took 3 months for them to complete the project. Now, Medicare still has the .txts but thankfully they built a datalab to hold the files and I did all this teradata coding and now the code runs in 1 hour. So from 3 months to 1 hour. Not too shabby. But Medicaid is HUGE. Our population is gigantic and they have yet to build a lab. So I have to use these .txt files and told them I sincerely hope nothing changes like column headers or datatypes because I am going to create SAS code to import all this stuff, then work it because it does have to be cleaned and if the next time we run (once a quarter is the ask) if they change one little thing the SAS automation portion that cleans and does all the manipulating will be thrown out of whack. It is the same with the lab. If they change something. Then I get oh, so it isn't truly automated??? I want to scream clueless people. The only way to automate and account for changes of incoming stuff is to create a brain that can say oh if the datatype is now this then do that. But if datatype stays the same do this. They don't get they are talking about 1,102 separate .txt files (as of now), and if it were as easy a balancing a checkbook then everyone would and could do it. thanks. I will look at the links.
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