#!perl use strict; use DBI; my $dbh = dbh(); my $sql = 'SELECT COLUMN1,COLUMN2,COLUMN3 FROM TABLE1 WHERE COLUMN4 = ?'; my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql); $sth->execute('foo'); my $tmpfile = "c:\\temp\\public\\temp1.dat"; open TMP,'>',$tmpfile or die "$!"; while (my @f = $sth->fetchrow_array){ $f[2] = subrt($f[2]); print TMP (join "\t",@f)."\n"; } close TMP; my $rv = $dbh->do('DELETE FROM TABLE2'); print "$rv records deleted from TABLE2\n"; $rv = $dbh->do( " BULK INSERT TABLE2 FROM '$tmpfile' WITH ( FIELDTERMINATOR = '\t' )" ); print "$rv records insert into TABLE2"; sub subrt { reverse shift } # connect sub dbh { my $dsn = "DBI:ODBC:mssql"; my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, 'sa', '', {RaiseError => 1, PrintError => 1}) or die (Error connecting " $DBI::errstr"); }