I have an Access front end to a table residing on an SQL server. I am accessing the SQL server through a VPN over a DSL line.
Now, I have some data I need to insert in to that table. It sits in a text file. All in all, there are around 9000 records in the text file.
I had excel reading the text file, then cleaning up the data, then I would link the excel table via ODBC, and link to the SQL Server table, then do an INSERT INTO ServerTable Select * from ExcelTable; That would take about 22 minutes to finish.
I cleaned things up a bit, using VB to directly read the text file, and I can insert in to the ServerTable directly via an ADO recordset in about 18 minutes.
I want to get the time down further.
Now, if I read that text file and use ADO, I can insert all the records in an Access table on network share across that same VPN in about 4 minutes, so I figure there is about 14 minutes of overhead in dealing with the SQL server.
So is there anything I can do to decrease the amount of time it takes to insert the 9000 records in to the ServerTable?
Thanks,
David
PS. Oddly, I tried to limit the number of fields I data I upload, and found it actually took MORE time to send one field than it did to send all 30 some fields in the full dataset. I really can't figure that out.
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What might be causing it in Access 2000 and how do I fix it?
