Digs (5/2/2010)
.."As we've seen on dozens of posts, an XML splitter would not have performed so well."..Jeff you have seen the yahoo .csv link I posted in this thread.
I too investigated XML transfer of OHLCV data.
So you Say that plain TEXT splitting is fast than XML splitting into a DateOHLCV table.
Interesting..
Sorry for resurrecting a post that's more than a year old... I can finally answer this with some good bit of authority... please see the following article... particularly the comparison charts.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/72993/
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.