Larry,

Thanks. I can always count on high-quality tech information from you.

>>If you really want to get down and dirty, check out this link (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/oledb/htm/oledbabout_the_ole_db_documentation.asp). You would need to implement your connectivity via the OLEDB provider for SQL Server. Of course, you could always use ADO as George suggested because it wraps this functionality for you already into a COM interface.

As I said in my reply to Hector, I'm trying to find out if I can write directly to SQL Server with low-level file IO calls. I'm getting the feeling that I can't (which doesn't really suprise me) but either way, I'm getting my answer.

Regards,
Thom