# Geek Thrilz

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thrilz/126350>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 30, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thrilz/126350 "2002-08-30T19:09:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ouisey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc29f/32.png) [@ouisey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouisey)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thrilz/126350/1 "2002-08-30T19:09:28Z")

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Wheee!

FoxPro 2.6 to SQL 2000  
2.5 million rows in 20 seconds:)

I like bcp much more than DTS thx

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**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thrilz/126350/2 "2002-08-30T19:52:32Z")

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Doing _what_ to 2.5 million rows in 20 seconds? You’ll have to be more specific to impress an Oracle DBA.

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**Author:** ![ouisey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc29f/32.png) [@ouisey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouisey)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thrilz/126350/3 "2002-08-30T20:20:41Z")

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Oh…only copying. I’m just happy that I got an iffy 3-hour job down to 20 seconds and it works _every time_.

Sigh. It probably doesn’t impress you much does it? I suppose I should have named the thread “dork thrilz”, cuz I’m not up to geek yet.