Er, minor point, but im fairly certain that ive read something by mpeppler the author of the Sybase DBI modules (DBI::Sybase) that you are actually beter off (speed primarily) shelling out to the normal sybase BCP executable. My own experience seems to indicate that this is better as well, and it isnt too hard to handle executing it from perl.

HTH

Yves / DeMerphq
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