Oleg,

Instead of deleting once every 2-3 weeks, you might consider defining a job on the server to delete your 'unused' rows everynight based on the appropriate conditions

Mark



>>>Hi all,
>>>Every 2-3 weeks I load 0.5-1.5 million rec into server table and delete "expired" records. I delete records from server table using BCP+Fox solution (DROP INDEX for all of them, BCP the whole table (3-5 mln rec) out, APPEND FROM tblOld.txt FOR myConditions to Fox table, COPY TO tblNew.txt, TRUNCATE server table, BCP in, CREATE INDEX ).
>>>It works good enough and using BCP+Fox I avoid transaction log nightmare that kills all SQL Server solutions I tried, but I am still interested in "Server only" solution and wondering how others deal with such problem.
>>>TIA and Happy New Year!
>>>Oleg
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>>Are the records being deleted coming only from the records you load every 2 to 3 weeks? If so, [at least in Oracle], you can use a BEFORE INSERT TRIGGER to prevent non-qualifying records from being inserted. Any other records already in the table would have to be deleted using the DELETE FROM command.
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>No, I delete records that were inserted 3 months ago and were not used.
>Thanks
>Oleg