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7/28/2003 2:00:54 PM

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I am importing a vertical bar delimited file and it seems to go so much
slower then if I used a fixed field file. Is that normal or is there
something I am doing wrong.
(Ex. importing the same file in both bar delimited and Fixed length. Fixed
length takes about 1 minute and bar delimited file takes 14 miutes.)

Thanks in advance.

Re: Bulk Insert

Brendan Lane
7/28/2003 3:47:47 PM

I have 363 columns and 383,000 rows. When I bulk insert using fixed field it
takes 2 minutes. When I import bar delimited file it takes 11 minutes. The
reason I have to import this file twice is because when I import the fixed
length file it doesn't convert all space fields to nulls and this is the
only work around I have found that works based on speed. Just wish I could
get the same speed importing the bar delimited file.

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Re: Bulk Insert

Allan Mitchell
7/28/2003 7:45:06 PM

I have just imported an 8 column all integer 303,000 row comma delim text file in 1 second
(1second = | delimiter)

I imported a 1.7 million row text file Fixed width 8 * 1 char with format file in 7 seconds

I think speeds should be more or less comparable.

What version SQL Server and SP ?

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