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Posted - 2006-01-10 : 08:16:16
Lars writes "I am running a sql server, which I update with about 300.000 quarries everyday, this takes very long time, story is:

I get a few files every morning, I read in the files into a program, I loop throw the file and for each row, I see if the post exists in my database, if so, I update two fields with the information in the text file. Now I wonder if there is any way to make a file and let sql handle that work, like doing a batch job, I provide a file with all the information needed, and let the sql server execute it. All att once.

Any help and I would be grateful.

Bets regards

// Lars Karlsson"

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Posted - 2006-01-10 : 09:30:36
See
http://www.nigelrivett.net/SQLTsql/ImportTextFiles.html
That will enable you to process all files in a folder.
Just change MergeBCPData to do the update (can be a single statement if the data is a reasonable size).

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