Re: What's the best way to open a recordset for insert only?

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Spencer wrote:
So I found myself having to import a boatload of multimillion-line
text files into SQL Server. Because of idiosyncrasies in the data,
BULK INSERT and DTS proved impracticable. Which meant writing a
standalone program to do it.

Really? Why wouldn't you import them into a staging table and then use
t-sql to process them? I think you will find ADO choking on this amount
of data.

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