The final word(for now) on Import/Exporthttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/euanga/archive/2006/07/27/675137.aspxThe folks at SQLTeam have done some analysis on different ways of importing text files, you can read the info here; http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp/articles/10631.aspx http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp/archive/2006/07/22/10742.aspx And ofen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)