Yeah, I had looked at the "forum leaders" and then I noticed a new admin... I was like hmmmm. Yeah, joined the first day. david must REALLY trust him, to be admin.
I know of a tool...
it's called Scribe Workbench... it cost a few thousand pounds... but it'll convert any data source to any data source, (including text files)...
and it'll let you run SQL queries on any datasource, (again including text files.)