Microsoft's SQL Server software, used in thousands of businesses ranging from storefront operations to multinational companies, has capabilities to bulk-insert Comma Separated Value files into a ...

When you insert new records into an SQL database, you may run into issues where you accidentally overwrite records that are already present due to a duplication issue. You can use a simple alteration ...

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 ...

Arthur Fuller explores the value of identity columns and the usefulness of their arbitrary values and discusses ways to use SQL Server 2000's IDENTITY_INSERT setting. Despite your numerous ...

I have an application that reads an image file and puts it into a MEDIUMBLOB. Or at least that's what it's supposed to do. What it actually does is nothing. I can do the database insert, which gives ...

Hello all. <BR>I have a collection of comma delimited text files sitting on a network drive. This data needs to be imported daily into our production tables. The destination tables vary depending upon ...