This is a great article. I did something very similar in C#, for reading in GB of data in a daily process. It is very fun to use the profiler and continually m

This is a great article. I did something very similar in C#, for reading in GB of data in a daily process. It is very fun to use the profiler and continually make optimizations. Two of my biggest wins were: 1) writing a custom DateTime parser and 2) using a integer dictionary instead of Convert.ToInt32().