DTS Export to DBF takes very long time

  • All,

    I have a problem with a DTS package taking hours to export to a DBF. The task is a Transform Data Task. The Source is a query to a database on the local SQL Server. The Destination is a dBase V file on a local drive on the SQL Server.

    The task has been running now for 3 hours, and the destination DBF has gotten to 1GB (which is expected - there are about 8 million rows to export).

    However, when I had the task exporting to a TAB delimited text file, the task completed in about 30 minutes.

    Does anyone have any suggestions as to why it is taking so long by simply changing the destination from a text file to a DBF file?

    -Steve

  • Check if there are indexes on the dbf file.

     

     

  • There are none - I created the DBF especially for the data export, and it is not used by anything else.

  • A couple of other items you might look into.

    1.  does the sql server table have many text files

    2.  is there a real time virus monitoring program running on the pc and are files with a dbf extension being scanned

     

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