SQL Bulk Insert has been tuned over the years to work well with the Microsoft .NET Framework. This tutorial shows you how to take advantage of its power. SQL Bulk Insert is not a new technology. In ...

this will return: "(1 row(s) affected)" But now I need to know, what data was actually inserted? SQL Server has answered this question in 2005 with the OUTPUT statement: This will return a dataset ...

I'm using bcp to dump large quantities of data into a table that has several indexed views built on top of it. It seems to work fine for a while, but on ...