My plan was to get the text file and do a Bulk insert into a holder table in Sql server 2000 via the bulk insert command inside a stored procedure.

SQL Bulk Insert has been tuned over the years to work well with the Microsoft .NET Framework. This tutorial shows you how to take advantage of its power.

How to Check for Duplicates Before Inserting Into SQL. When you insert new records into an SQL database, you may run into issues where you accidentally overwrite records that are already present ...