Posted by Ed Murphy on 01/09/07 02:41

Erland Sommarskog wrote:

> (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?

I think the latest version of Excel may have a higher row limit - which
only increases the tendency of newbies to misuse Excel as a "database".

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