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Asked: 2026-05-10T18:09:02+00:00

In my eternal saga to insert 1.4 million rows of data from a SQL

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In my eternal saga to insert 1.4 million rows of data from a SQL script, I’ve written a basic WinForms app that takes each line of the script and executes it individually.

However, because the original script contained

SET IDENTITY_INSERT [Table] OFF

and SET is a session-wide command, this setting is getting lost on every SQL call, meaning that each line is failing. Is there a way to set IDENTITY_INSERT off for the whole table, database-wide just so I can make these individual calls without them failing? Or perhaps I can tell it to ignore the identity specification by appending a command to each line?

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  1. BULK INSERT won’t work for you? Or the SQL Server Import/Export Wizard (here or here)? I know import/export can turn off identity insert for the whole import. I’m reasonably certain you can do it just prior to BULK INSERT

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