Hi, thanks for the pointer, I'll try to figure out how this works in case it can be helpful.

I think I should have clarified, though, that the old data is...

excellent!

thanx!

Is this a standard *problem*? Or an unsolved one (just an sqlserver limitation that must be dealt with in a totally different way??)

I saw 10 people read the thread but...

EXEC master..xp_cmdshell 'DTSRun /S "(local)" /N "PREPROCESSING_DICTIONARY import" /W "0" /E'

read help info on xp_cmdshell and DTSRun

command line utility dtsrunui offers a gui to build the above string and export...