David;

Thanks for the response. Is BCP something that has to be run from the SQL admin console, or can I somehow send it a file from a client application...?

TIA

>Michael,
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>The BCP program that comes with most SQL servers does a really fast job of loading data, several orders of magnitude faster than SPT will achieve.
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>If you are talking about SQLServer a DTS (data transformation services IIRC) package is another choice you can use.
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>>We have a fair amount of records to import to SQL from CSV. Should I be importing to a cursor and then use a SCAN loop to T-SQL them into the table, or is there a more direct way to import the whole thing in my VFP client app?