Data conversion/loading

Our year end was on 31 March 2007 and since then lots of assets have been retired. The users will still have a display access on the Legacy system. Will the users be able to run their year end (31 March 2008) reporting on both systems should we decide not to take-over the assets that were retired after 31 March 2007.
I am busy doing data conversion/loading.

Hi,
I have dealt with this in the past. My recommendation is to ask the responsible financial person. He/she must decide what to do with the assets and its history, because it has a highly financial impact!
Regards,
Paul

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however when I run the bulk load utility I get the error
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Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 1, column 3 (NumberOfMultipleMatches).
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the bulk insert statement is as follows
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FIELDTERMINATOR = ','
, KEEPNULLS
==========================================
Does anybody know what is happening and what needs to be done ?
PLEASE HELP
Thanks in advance
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