Rick, Thanks. I need to run this on a MS SQL server, so I did some translating, but can't get past a few things.

Maybe you or someone else can help...

Ended up going from Excel to a temp table, then using the "Select Where Not" statement from the temp table to the destination table. Could never seem to use the...

Thanks for all of the input.

I like this idea:

INSERT INTO table

(A, B)

SELECT Excel.A, Excel.B

FROM Excel

WHERE NOT EXISTS

(SELECT 1

FROM table

WHERE Excel.A = Table.A

AND Excel.B = Table.B)

But being a Newbie I am...

I am using MERGE.

Any hints on what I might be able to use besides hostname? Hostname might work, but I would like to find out what my options are.

Thanks!

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