• Roughly like below. You may have to adjust the "SINGLE_NCLOB" to "SINGLE_CLOB", depending on the format of the input file.

    DECLARE @file_text varchar(max)

    SELECT @file_text = file_text

    FROM OPENROWSET(BULK 'd:\full\path\to\file\filename.txt', SINGLE_NCLOB) AS file_bulk(file_text)

    --(Or)

    --INSERT INTO dbo.tablename ( file_name, file_text )

    --SELECT 'File1' AS file_name, file_text FROM ...

    SELECT @file_text

    SQL DBA,SQL Server MVP(07, 08, 09) "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." "Norm", on "Cheers". Also from "Cheers", from "Carla": "You need to know 3 things about Tortelli men: Tortelli men draw women like flies; Tortelli men treat women like flies; Tortelli men's brains are in their flies".