Yes. I've upgraded to the Standard version and that fixed the problem.

>Are you using SQL Server or MSDE? MSDE Does have the 2GB database limit so that may be the problem. I use Bulk Insert called from within a VB6 app to insert files with up to 100,000 records daily (no where neae 3 gigs) - and it works OK.
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>>I'm getting the following error when issuing a Bulk Import with a format file.
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>>"could not allocate space for object '< table name >' in database location because primary
>>filegroup is full"
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>>I'm attempting to import about 3 gigs of data ( basically just a flat file ).
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>>I attempted to attach a database of approximately the same size and I recieved the following error.
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>>"Error 1827: CREATE/ALTER DATABASE failed because resulting cumulative database size would exceed your licensed limit of 2048 MB per database."
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>>Is this just a licensing issue?