Question : Put INSERT statements or *.SQL scripts in STORED PROCEDURE ?

I have a series of *.sql scripts that I need to run, all of which contain a large number of INSERT statements.  

Some of these *.sql scripts are too large to load in Query Analyzer, and I cannot run them in OSQL, since that destroys the characters that have diacritical marks, which is the subject of a different question, still open on this forum.

THIS question is:

Can I put the INSERT statements into a STORED PROCEDURE so I can simply do an EXEC MY_SP, and thus get around the limit of trying to load too many INSERT statements into query analyzer at the same time?

I know one solution would be to make the *.sql scripts smaller, and have more of them.  But I already have a large number of them, and the number will go up by a factor of 10 if I have to cut them all down to size.

So my question is: can I put these huge collections of INSERT statements into a collection of STORED PROCEDURES so they'll run better from query analyzer.

Alternatively, can I run a *.sql script directly from inside a STORED PROCEDURE?

Answer : Put INSERT statements or *.SQL scripts in STORED PROCEDURE ?

yes, you can put many inserts into 1 stored procedure. the limit is 2GB of text.

>Alternatively, can I run a *.sql script directly from inside a STORED PROCEDURE?
yes, if the file is on the server.
as you know how to do with osql, simply combine that knowledge with the fact that you can lauch command line tools from within sql with the stored procedure xp_cmdshell (in master database).

TIP:
instead of having multiple inserts, you should group them by table, and make it 1 insert.
explanation:

'orignial version'
insert into table1 ( field1, field2, field3 ) values ( value1, value2, value3)
insert into table1 ( field1, field2, field3 ) values ( value1, value2, value3)
insert into table1 ( field1, field2, field3 ) values ( value1, value2, value3)
insert into table1 ( field1, field2, field3 ) values ( value1, value2, value3)
insert into table1 ( field1, field2, field3 ) values ( value1, value2, value3)
insert into table1 ( field1, field2, field3 ) values ( value1, value2, value3)

'better version (faster):
insert into table1 ( field1, field2, field3 )
             select value1, value2, value3
union all select value1, value2, value3
union all select value1, value2, value3
union all select value1, value2, value3
union all select value1, value2, value3
union all select value1, value2, value3

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