Question

I’m looking to copy a few thousand records from SQL Server into Access in C#. The other direction works using SqlBulkCopy. Is there anything in place to do this in reverse?

I’m trying my best to stay away from looping through each field in each record and building a heinous Insert statement that not only would take forever to run, but would likely crash horribly if anything changes.

Answer 1

This will run against the MS Access OleConnection connection:

SELECT fld1, fld2 INTO accessTable FROM [sql connection string].sqltable

For example:

SELECT * INTO newtable 
FROM 
[ODBC;Description=Test;DRIVER=SQL Server;SERVER=server\SQLEXPRESS;UID=uid;Trusted_Connection=Yes;DATABASE=Test].table_1

Or to append

INSERT INTO newtable
SELECT *
FROM [ODBC;Description=Test;DRIVER=SQL Server;SERVER=server\SQLEXPRESS;UID=uid;Trusted_Connection=Yes;DATABASE=Test].table_1;

Or with FileDSN

INSERT INTO newtable
SELECT * 
FROM [ODBC;FileDSN=z:\docs\test.dsn].table_1;

You will need to find the right driver to suit, for example

ODBC;Driver={SQL Server Native Client 11.0};Server=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase; Uid=myUsername;Pwd=myPassword; 

From http://connectionstrings.com works for me, but check out your client version.