This series - a twelve part series mind you - is a comprehensive survey of the various tools available to you when you want to import text files (a.k.a. flat files) into your SQL Server. This series covers scenarios such as loading empty tables with no indexes (i.e., a heap), empty tables with clustered indexes, and appending to tables. You'll learn the details about bcp, BULK INSERT, OPENROWSET, and using SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) to do your batch loads.