Copy 800MB into SQL through ODBC dsn??

hello, i am a simple web developer with lots of database administration experience but zero sql scripting experience.

i need to do a full copy (not delta) of an 800MB UnisysMapper database through an ODBC driver into my Windows SQL 2000 server. it needs to be a script that can be automated to run once a week.

i dont know where to start. all i have are guesses. is there a quick way of doing this? can someone suggest a quick set of steps for me to get rolling?

should i record a VB script with DTS wizard and edit it? if so, how do i schedule it?

should i use a stored procedure (Transact-SQL) instead?

help please! to give me a quicker answer reply to me at jonthorwilliams@.yahoo.com

thanks.
jonI used DTC job and scheduled that, to suck a lot of data 1GB from a mainframe DB2 into 2000 and that worked a treat.

The throughput was fairly quick at 5 k-rows/sec.

Rob.

Converting visual foxpro to sql 2000

I am trying to convert a foxpro database to sql 2000 using the wizard within sql 2000 but it keeps giving me an odbc error when accessing the foxpro database? I am stuck and don't know where to turn next. Any ideas? Thanks
rick,
Please share your error message and the version of Visual FoxPro you are
using. It sounds like a problem in defining your
ODBC data source, but need more info.
Russell Fields
"rick" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I am trying to convert a foxpro database to sql 2000 using the wizard
within sql 2000 but it keeps giving me an odbc error when accessing the
foxpro database? I am stuck and don't know where to turn next. Any ideas?
Thanks
|||In news: DCEDB7E2-CC4A-4661-8E8F-19169A3D35AD@.microsoft.com,
rick <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I am trying to convert a foxpro database to sql 2000 using the wizard
> within sql 2000 but it keeps giving me an odbc error when accessing
> the foxpro database?
Hi Rick,
FoxPro tables can come in either of two formats. They can be "free" tables,
meaning that each table is independent of the others, or they can be part of
a "database container" which holds metadata and allows additional features
for the tables. If you see a file with a DBC extension then you've got a
database.
Also, tables using any of the new features that were introduced in VFP7 and
VFP8 can only be accessed via the FoxPro and Visual FoxPro OLE DB data
provider.
Both the ODBC driver and OLE DB data provider are downloadable from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/do...s/default.aspx .
Cindy Winegarden MCSD, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
cindy.winegarden@.mvps.org www.cindywinegarden.com