• paul.marsh (1/3/2011)


    decent article - good reference. but I feel a comment about the bcp utility should be added for those situations that warrant a different approach.

    Paul - thanks. But how would you use BCP to load an XML file in? (This is what this article is about...)

    Wayne
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