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kcrewjap

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Dec 21, 2006
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I am using SQL 2000. trying to automate a job to pull data from a shared file to upload to my database...would bulk insert be the best route for this?
 
BULK INSERT is a more straight forward pull of data. It doesn't handle datatype transformations well, so if you've got a datatype in your shared folder that SQL Server doesn't recognize, then you could import it wrong.

So, BULK INSERT or a DTS package could both work depending on what you want to do or how you want to deal with the data.



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