• Just a suggestion...

    If you regularly load large amounts of data using BCP or Bulk Insert, consider making a "staging area" database. Because all data in a staging area should be considered expendable and reproducible from external sources, you should be able to set a "staging area" database to the Simple Recovery Mode without fear. Also, because the data is expendable, there is no need to do data-backups on "staging area" databases nor is there a need to do deletes. Truncates or even drops of tables would be the way to go.

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)