Fastest method for Inserting 1 million records into SQL Database

I am reading a text file and modifing the data to match fields in a SQL 2000 Database then inserting the record in. I am using vb.net and have tried various methods but all are to slow. I would appreciate any help anybody could offer.
Have you tried BCP or BULK INSERT? It sounds like you're inserting the data
row-by-row using VB.NET; perhaps you can get away with a BULK INSERT using a
format file to tweak the data? It would probably also be faster if you BULK
INSERT the data in its "raw" form into a temporary table and then move it to
its final destination using INSERT ... SELECT, and do any data modifications
necessary in the SELECT.
"BradC" <BradC@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I am reading a text file and modifing the data to match fields in a SQL
2000 Database then inserting the record in. I am using vb.net and have tried
various methods but all are to slow. I would appreciate any help anybody
could offer.

Fastest method for Inserting 1 million records into SQL Database

I am reading a text file and modifing the data to match fields in a SQL 2000
Database then inserting the record in. I am using vb.net and have tried var
ious methods but all are to slow. I would appreciate any help anybody could
offer.Have you tried BCP or BULK INSERT? It sounds like you're inserting the data
row-by-row using VB.NET; perhaps you can get away with a BULK INSERT using a
format file to tweak the data? It would probably also be faster if you BULK
INSERT the data in its "raw" form into a temporary table and then move it to
its final destination using INSERT ... SELECT, and do any data modifications
necessary in the SELECT.
"BradC" <BradC@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F2AA271E-A8B7-448F-83BC-900EFFB679E8@.microsoft.com...
> I am reading a text file and modifing the data to match fields in a SQL
2000 Database then inserting the record in. I am using vb.net and have tried
various methods but all are to slow. I would appreciate any help anybody
could offer.