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 Importing text file with some updates

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Posted - 2002-09-04 : 11:31:18
neel writes "I've a text file and I need to import it to a table. I can do this using Import/Export task, but before updating the table I need to check that the perticular Row (can say record) already exists in the destination table, if exists need to update the record else insert the record. How can i do this. I need to do this task every day and the text file can contain more than 10,00,000 rows. could you please tell me indetail..

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Neel."

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Posted - 2002-09-04 : 13:24:16
I would use a non-logged operation to import the data into a 'staging' table, the INSERT/UPDATE you final destination using DML ...

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