No need using DTS. One word: bcp
and xp_shell to execute it and it is super fast. -----Original Message----- From: Martin Thorpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 5:36 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: reading large text file Hello all. I am uploading a 74 + MB tab delimited text file that I am then reading and inserting the values into a database. The problem is it always times out, or just takes too long (did not finish over night!!!!) to read the file. It is uploaded fine. Any suggestions about how I may approach this to make it work with such large files? I looked at a bit of Java code someone had posted here but it went no quicker really. I was thinking of maybe chopping the file into slices and then processing but not too sure how I would approach this. Any opinions or ideas/tips would be gratefully accepted. Thanks for reading. Cheers Martin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:247817 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
