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I’ve to INSERT a lot of rows (more than 1.000.000.000) to a SQL Server data base. The table has an AI Id, two varchar(80) cols and a smalldatetime with GETDATE as default value. The last one is just for auditory, but necesary.
I’d like to know the best (fastest) way to INSERT the rows. I’ve been reading about BULK INSERT. But if posible I’d like to avoid it because the app does not run on the same server where database is hosted and I’d like to keep them as isolated as posible.
Thanks!
Diego
Another option would be bcp.
Alternatively, if you’re using .NET you can use the SqlBulkCopy class to bulk insert data. This is something I’ve blogged about on the performance of, which you may be interested in as I compared SqlBulkCopy vs another way of bulk loading data to SQL Server from .NET (using SqlDataAdapter). Basic example loading 100,000 rows took 0.8229s using SqlBulkCopy vs. 25.0729s using the SqlDataAdapter approach.