• Nardig (6/30/2009)


    Yes the text file looks like this

    1,'John','Smith','Washington'

    2,'Nick','Smith','London'

    3,'blabla','blabla','blaa'

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    this text contains 1200 records

    Check out Books-Online (BOL) for "BULK INSERT". If your destination table has additional columns, you may need a format file (see "BCP" in BOL for how to create one). Since your field terminator isn't a tab, you'll need to specify that in the BULK INSERT command.

    Wayne
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
    Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes


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