We need to import large text files 1.5 million rows regularly (weekly). We create a cursor and append from text_file TYPE SDF. Very fast so far. Problem is, there is a description in this file that is up to 1000 characters wide. We import it into 4 char(250) fields and then after the import issue a replace statement to fill in the memo field.

REPLACE fmitemdesc with ALLTRIM(fcitem1)+ALLTRIM(fcitem2)+ALLTRIM(fcitem3)+ALLTRIM(fcitem4) ALL

The above replace statement is EXTREMELY slow - about 100 records every 3 seconds!! It takes forever to do these large files.

Is there a different way to import from a text file and get the info into a single memo field? It is going from the cursor into SQL Server in a varchar(1000) field.

Thanks!!
Donna