Thanks, Luke. I didn't realize that numbers in the beginning of the column names were contributing to the problem.

Unfortunately, I have requirements to keep/show the column names as is. I...

Thank you for the real-life example. This gives us much more confidence going forward.

We have been stress testing as you suggested and there have been no issues so far. It helps very much to know that a separate instance is opened each time.

Thank...

Very good points.  I will keep an eye on performance (provided rights isn't an issue).  I'm hoping to do more extensive tests next week. 

I put together a small test using sp_oacreate and the filesystemobject and it worked well.  I haven't incorporated it yet into the specific stored proc yet...hopefully this will go fine. ...

isqlw -FA -o "OutANSI.txt" -S %1 -d %2 -E -b -i "Scripts\Initialize.sql" works perfectly.  Thanks!

I also just discovered that I can keep the osql syntax if I save the script as...