I have used BulkCopy
command to transfer rows from one table to another table with bulk data about 3 to 5 million rows. I want to update these rows.
Is there any BulkUpdate
command similar to the BulkCopy
command? I'm using ASP.NET with C#.
A common approach here is:
Disclaimer: I'm the owner of the project Bulk Operations
The Bulk Operations Library allow to Insert, Delete, Update and Merge millions of rows in few seconds.
It's very easy to learn and use if you already know the SqlBulkCopy class.
var bulk = new BulkOperation(connection);
// ... Mappings ....
bulk.BulkUpdate(dt);
No, there isn't.
Q: What's an "lac"?
This might help:
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/bulk-update-in-sql-server-2005/
Assuming that you have a column with distict values to show you which rows are which between the two tables this can be done with a simple update statement.
UPDATE TableA
SET TableA.A1 = TableB.B1,
TableA.A2 = TableB.B2
FROM TableB
WHERE TableA.A3 = TableB.B3
If you are worried about creating one massive transaction you can batch the operation into smaller chunks. This is done via the TOP keyword.
UPDATE TOP (1000) TableA
SET TableA.A1 = TableB.B1,
TableA.A2 = TableB.B2
FROM TableB
WHERE TableA.A3 = TableB.B3
AND TableA.A1 <> TableB.B1
AND TableA.A2 <> TableB.B2
You can put that into a loop...
Here's another link (with basically the same solution):