Craig: Thanks for the input. I like the idea of replication, but I don't want to do it continuously during the day. The goal here is to offload as much...

Jeffrey:

Thanks for the intelligent and well-laid out reply. I've always swum in the shallow end of the SQL pool but now find myself at the deep end! I guess I'll...

Sorry, BULK INSERT was the wrong term. It's been over a week, so I forget. I was trying to write a proc to export the data to flat file from...