Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 01/08/07 22:30

(cabrenner@optonline.net) writes:
> Thank you both for your suggestions. Yes, I was thinking that BULK
> INSERT was not going to be able to handle this. I had thought about
> dumping the file into an Access table first, but the file could be very
> large (200,000+ rows). I am going to try the Excel spreadsheet idea.

200000+ rows? Then Access is probably a better bet. Doesn't Excel stop
at 65536 rows?

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