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Asked: 2026-05-14T23:27:22+00:00

I am wondering how can do a mass insert and bulk copy at the

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I am wondering how can do a mass insert and bulk copy at the same time? I have 2 tables that should be affect by the bulk copy as they both depend on each other.

So I want it that if while inserting table 1 a record dies it gets rolled back and table 2 never gets updated. Also if table 1 inserts good and table 2 an update fails table 1 gets rolled back.

Can this be done with bulk copy?

Edit

I should have mentioned I am doing the bulk insert though C#.

It sort of looks like this but this is an example I been working off. So I am not sure if I have to alter it to be a stored procedure(not sure how it would look and how the C# code would look) 

private static void BatchBulkCopy()
{
    // Get the DataTable 
    DataTable dtInsertRows = GetDataTable();

    using (SqlBulkCopy sbc = new SqlBulkCopy(connectionString, SqlBulkCopyOptions.KeepIdentity))
    {
        sbc.DestinationTableName = "TBL_TEST_TEST";

        // Number of records to be processed in one go
        sbc.BatchSize = 500000;

        // Map the Source Column from DataTabel to the Destination Columns in SQL Server 2005 Person Table
        // sbc.ColumnMappings.Add("ID", "ID");
        sbc.ColumnMappings.Add("NAME", "NAME");

        // Number of records after which client has to be notified about its status
        sbc.NotifyAfter = dtInsertRows.Rows.Count;

        // Event that gets fired when NotifyAfter number of records are processed.
        sbc.SqlRowsCopied += new SqlRowsCopiedEventHandler(sbc_SqlRowsCopied);

        // Finally write to server
        sbc.WriteToServer(dtInsertRows);
        sbc.Close();
    }

}
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  1. Editorial Team

    I am wondering how can do a mass
    insert and bulk copy at the same time?
    I have 2 tables that should be affect
    by the bulk copy as they both depend
    on each other. So I want it that if
    while inserting table 1 a record dies
    it gets rolled back and table 2 never
    gets updated. Also if table 1 inserts
    good and table 2 an update fails table
    1 gets rolled back. Can this be done
    with bulk copy?

    No – the whole point of SqlBulkCopy is to get data into your database as fast as possible. It will just dump the data into a single table.

    The normal use case will be to then inspect that table once it’s imported, and begin to “split up” that data and store it into whatever place it needs to go – typically through a stored procedure (since the data already is on the server, and you want to distribute it to other tables – you don’t want to pull all that data back down to the client, inspect it, and then send it back to the server one more time).

    SqlBulkCopy only grabs a bunch of data and drops it into a table – very quickly so. It cannot split up data into multiple tables based on criteria or conditions.

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