I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

Platform is .Net/SQL 2005. <BR><BR>I am working on a program that has to read flat data file and stick the records in a table. The layout of the file (number of fields/PK/data types) is ...