SqlBulkCopy Tutorial - Knowledge Base (KB)

SqlBulkCopy is sluggish and does not use the whole network bandwidth.

for that past couple of weeks I have been creating generic script that is able to copy databases. The goal is to be able to specify any database on some server and copy it to some other location, and it should only copy the specified content. The exact co...

DBF Errors in C# BulkCopy (Timout, & Provider could not determine...)

I've written a small console app that I point to a folder containing DBF/FoxPo files....It then creates a table in SQL based on each dbf table, then does a bulk copy to insert the data into SQL. It works quite well for the most part, except for a few snag...

Persistent time out issues copying very large tables across SQL Server 2012 instances on Amazon RDS

To give some context, I'm currently running a SQL Server 2012 instance on Amazon RDS and I've had to move to a larger instance twice already. The first time SQLAzureMW was the way to go, but at the time no table was that significantly large. The second ti...