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 Best way to bulk insert from memory

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X-Factor
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

392 Posts

Posted - 2006-01-28 : 17:11:31
Hi,

I'm working on a website where a user can upload a file with some data. The data is parsed into in memory objects and now I'm wondering how to insert this into the database.

The bulk insert methods I've seen all seem to require that the data is in a file on the same machine as the db. How can I bulk insert from memory?

Also, if data is sent to the db as a CSV, then what is the standard procedure for stopping commas in the data being mistaken for commas which delimit the data?

Cheers, XF.

rockmoose
SQL Natt Alfen

3279 Posts

Posted - 2006-01-28 : 17:42:45
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/billg/archive/2006/01/24/8855.aspx

could be of some help, there is some code that creates a text file and bulk inserts it into a table, if I remember right.

rockmoose
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X-Factor
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

392 Posts

Posted - 2006-01-28 : 18:08:53
Hi there, that appears to be using .net 2.0. Unfortunately I'm still using 1.1.

But goodness, SqlBulkCopy would have done the trick.
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