>Hi,
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>If my application is using the SQL Server 2000 opendatasource import function to import excel file into our DB table for processing. However, it is taking up lot of resources and CPU usage. Any other way to improve on this area and resource. Thank you

V,

Try the BULK INSERT command. With it you can disable constraint checking and transaction logging. The only other thing that I can think of is to increase the file growth settings on the database.

Also, it may be useful to drop indexes before importing then re-create them afterwards.