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 ...

How to Check for Duplicates Before Inserting Into SQL. When you insert new records into an SQL ... such as "INSERT INTO your_table (column1,column2) VALUES ('1','a') ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE ...

Today's use of BCP -- or SQL Bulk Insert, as it's referred to now -- is much simpler and tightly integrated with the Microsoft .NET Framework. The migration of the Bulk Insert process to the ...

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.