Cindy,

Thank you for the quick reply.

Yes, in fact I do have a delimiting feature already built in, but that is for the user to set. However I am writing this as a generic class where I can not know what the data will look like before hand, so I can not make those kinds of guesses.

I guess what it comes down to is, I need a way of returning a cursor on it's own thread???

-- Chris


>Chris,
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>When I do large ad hoc SQL Pass-through queries I usually adjust the WHERE clause to get a few months of data at a time. You could also do a few letters of the alphabet if the data is alphabetical.
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>>Hi everyone.
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>>I have come across a situation where I need to background fetch a large result set (1.2 million records or more) from SQL Server...
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>>Is there some combination of asynchronous, batch mode on/off and SQLMoreResults that will let me break apart the query and come back with manageable chunks at a time?
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>>Thanks for your help.
>>-- Chris