James, >There's no chance that's true, technically. It may save you time, but >it's much, *much* less efficient than bcp or BULK INSERT. You might not >see much difference with 10,000 rows, but with 1,000,000 there's no >comparison. > > The most I'll be loading is maybe 50,000 or 60,000. Just writing the file takes most of the time as it stands. Wes