Every now and then I come across a problem with an old system one of my colleagues has developed. They tend to have thousands of lines of code to do a simple thing like impo
BULK INSERT is generally faster, and it will work on an X64 machine. The text driver mentioned above will probably not work in some X64 environments.
I would reccomend NOT using the format file, it's a lot simpler without it.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188365.aspx
BULK INSERT AdventureWorks2008R2.Sales.SalesOrderDetail FROM 'f:\orders\lineitem.tbl' WITH ( FIELDTERMINATOR =' |', ROWTERMINATOR =' |\n' )