Bulk Insert in SQL Server

Very often we come across a scenario where we need to execute same Insert or update commands with different values multiple times in one go. Say for example, show multiple records in updatable grid/tablular format allowing user to update them and then update them in database. Their are multiple ways to handle it and simplest being execute each DML command one after the other. The most resource consuming part of it is establishing connection for each DML command. Well, connection pooling helps a bit, but still one needs to request for connection from the connection pool. For details about connection pooling, refer to the article ADO.NET Connection Pooling at a Glance . Best solution in such a situation would be to establish the connection only once and perform multiple insert/update within it, and this is what is the target of this article. Let us see couple of mechanisms in which we can do this.

With ADO.NET 2.0 we got the programming interface for Bulk Copy which provides quite simple and straight forward mechanism to transfer the data from one SQL server instance to another, from one table to another, from DataTable to SQL Server 2005 database, from DataReader to SQL Server 2005 database and many more.

To start with It, first of all create a simple Person table as below in your database

CREATE TABLE Person
(
PersonId INT PRIMARY KEY,
PersonName VARCHAR(100)
)


SqlBulkCopy belongs to System.Data.SqlClient namespace and it is as simple as ADO.NET Command object when it comes to programming it. Let us see it working:


private void btnSQLBulkCopyInsert_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

// Get the DataTable

DataTable dtInsertRows = GetDataTable();

using (SqlBulkCopy sbc = new SqlBulkCopy(connectionString))

{

sbc.DestinationTableName = "Person";



// Number of records to be processed in one go

sbc.BatchSize = 2;



// Map the Source Column from DataTabel to the Destination Columns in SQL Server 2005 Person Table

sbc.ColumnMappings.Add("PersonId", "PersonId");

sbc.ColumnMappings.Add("PersonName", "PersonName");



// 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();

}

}



void sbc_SqlRowsCopied(object sender, SqlRowsCopiedEventArgs e)

{

MessageBox.Show("Number of records affected : " + e.RowsCopied.ToString());

}





The code above is very simple and quite self explanatory.

check out below link
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqlbulkcopy.aspx
for more information