Question

Sometimes you need to upgrade the database with many rows that you have in a datatable or you have an array full of data, instead of putting all this data together in a string and then splitting in SQL SERVER, or instead of iterating the datatable in the code row by row and updating database, is there any other way? Is there other type of variables besides the traditional ones in SQL SERVER 2005?

Answer 1

There’s a few ways to do this.

If you’re simply inserting rows, then I would create a DataTable object with the information in it, then use the SqlBulkCopy object:

SqlBulkCopy copier = new SqlBulkCopy(connectionString, SqlBulkCopyOptions.Default); copier.BatchSize = 500; //# of rows to insert at a time copier.DestinationTableName = 'dbo.MyTable'; copier.WriteToServer(myDataTable); 

Another option is to wrap your data in xml (however you want to do that), and send it to your stored procedure (which does whatever you need it to do) using the sql 2005 ‘xml’ data type