SqlBulkCopy Tutorial - Knowledge Base (KB)
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How does SqlBulkCopy retain row order?
I'm exporting data programatically from Excel to SQL Server 2005 using SqlBulkCopy. It works great, the only problem I have is that it doesn't preserve the row sequence i have in Excel file. I don't have a column to order by, I just want the records to be...
asked by roman m
What's the best technique to populate an extremely big table using SqlBulkCopy?
Nightly, I need to fill a SQL Server 2005 table from an ODBC source with over 8 million records. Currently I am using an insert statement from linked server with syntax select similar to this:...Insert Into SQLStagingTable from Select * from OpenQuery(ODB...
asked by Chad Braun-Duin
How do I configure Fire Triggers and Check Constraints in SqlBulkInsert?
I'm performing a bulk insert with an ADO.NET 2.0 SqlBulkCopy object from a C# method into a MS SQL 2005 database, using a database user with limited permissions. When I try to run the operation, I get the error message:...Bulk copy failed. User does not ...
asked by James Orr
SqlBulkCopy Doesn't Work
I have a ...DataSet... populated from Excel Sheet. I wanted to use SQLBulk Copy to Insert Records in ...Lead_Hdr... table where ...LeadId... is PK. ...I am having following error while executing the code below:...The given ColumnMapping does not match up ...
asked by Sandhurst
Does SQLBulkCopy significantly increase the size of the.mdf file?
I am using the SqlBulkCopy class to do a bulk insert into a SQLServer DB....Original size of the .mdf file associated with the DB is 1508 Mb.... When I run it (on the same data of about 4 million records) with :... BatchSize of 100000, the size of the .md...
asked by Pratik Stephen
Strings longer than 255 characters are not copied by SqlBulkCopy.
I am trying to copy a large Excel spreadsheet into the SQL Server database. I am opening an OldDbConnection to the Excel spreadsheet and reading everything from the [Sheet1$]. Then, I am using the OleDbCommand to get a IDataReader with the spreadsheet dat...
asked by hpatel298
SqlBulkCopy from DataTable in SQL CLR
We have an in memory DataTable in a CLR procedure. After significant processing the DataTable has a lot of data that we need to load into a table in the database. Unfortunately, since we are using a ...context connection... SqlBulkCopy will not work (thr...
asked by ahsteele
When using SQLBulkCopy to SQL Server from Excel, you may add text.
I've created a page where our partners can upload excel files with statistics using SQLBulkCopy. The file has multiple sheets and I need to add the name of the sheet into a column in the DB for each row. The names of the sheets will not change so hardcodi...
asked by Marcus Lindholm
What is the procedure for importing a table from an ODBC database?
I have an ODBC Database (some third party DB) where I have a bunch of tables. I am able to use 'GetSchema' to get a list of tables in there. I am also abe to utilize SQLBulkCopy to copy Data from these tables to SQL Server tables (only when I have created...
asked by R D
What are the disadvantages of SqlBulkCopy?
I have done some research for "The bast way to insert huge data into DB with C#" then a lot of people just suggested me using SqlBulkCopy. After I tried it out and it really amazed me. Undoubtedly, SqlBulkCopy is very very fast. It seems that SqlBulkCopy ...
asked by Edison Chuang
Error handling in sqlbulkcopy / continue on error
I am trying to insert huge amount of data into SQL server. My destination table has an unique index called "Hash". ...I would like to replace my SqlDataAdapter implementation with SqlBulkCopy. In SqlDataAapter there is a property called "ContinueUpdateOn...
asked by Paladin
SqlBulkCopy error while adding data
I'm trying to batch insert data into SQL 2008 using ...SqlBulkCopy.......Here is my table:...IF OBJECT_ID(N'statement', N'U') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE [statement] GO CREATE TABLE [statement]( [ID] INT IDENTITY(1, 1) NOT NULL, [date] DATE NOT NULL DEFAUL...
asked by abatishchev
Loading a DataSet from SQL Server with table definitions and relations (but no data).
I'm not an expert with either System.Data nor SQL Server, but have a need to generate a large DataSet then use System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy to store the results....The DataSet will consist of about 10 related tables. When SqlBulkCopy transfers the D...
asked by James Hugard
When SQLBulkCopy is finished, count the rows.
I am using SQLBulkCopy to move large amounts of data. I implemented the notification event to notify me every time a certain number of rows have been processed, but the OnSqlRowsCopied event does not fire when the job is completed. How do I get the tota...
asked by SchwartzE
DataTables with a Parent/Child Relationship on the Identity Column and SqlBulkCopy
We have a need to update several tables that have parent/child relationships based on an Identity primary-key in the parent table, which is referred to by one or more child tables as a foreign key....Due to the high volume of data, we would like to build ...
asked by James Hugard
Before using SqlBulkCopy, truncate.
I want to truncate a table before doing a SqlBulkCopy. Does SqlBulkCopy automatically truncate a table before copying the data?
asked by Swami
With the SqlBulkCopy class, you may import data from SQLite to SQL Server.
I'm trying to transfer the data from SQLite to SQL Server. The schema of target and destination table are just the same:...SQL Server:...CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Shop] ( [ShopID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [Name] [nvarchar](128) NOT NULL, [Url] ...
asked by Jeffrey Zhao
Does SqlBulkCopy WriteToServer need all database columns in my DataTable?
I'm importing some data from a CSV, and it doesn't have all the fields my table does. I was making a DataTable with only the columns of my CSV, but I'm getting errors about converting from String to Boolean. None of the fields I'm adding are Boolean, so...
asked by Thomas
Using BCP, you may write from a SQL Server table to a file.
I just realized my caps was on from working in SQL Server, ha. ...Anyways, Im trying to write from ...serverName.databaseName.databaseInstanceName.TableName...to ...C:\FileName.xml...using ...bcp... and I want to write only columns ...Col1... and ...Col2....
asked by tb.
When does SqlBulkCopy check for constraints?
If SqlBulkCopyOptions.CheckConstraints option is set for SqlBulkCopy insert, does it check the constraints separately after each record, or after all records are inserted?...I have a check constraint that compares some columns to the parent row (through a...
asked by Riikka Heikniemi
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