append data from a text file

How can I append data to an existing SQL Express table from a text file? The file contains over 50MBs of data. This will be a recurring task so naturally I would like to automate this. I am familiar with programming VC++ and VB but am not sure where to begin.

Since it's a larger file, you could use the BULK INSERT command:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts_ba-bz_4fec.asp

Or you could use bcp from a command line:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/coprompt/cp_bcp_61et.asp

Hope this helps,
Josh Lindenmuth