The load consumed 7 seconds for 2.45 million rows during the SQL bulk insert.

Lock Configurations with SQL Bulk Insert

May 11, 2020 by

One challenge we may face when using SQL bulk insert is whether we want to allow access during the operation or prevent access and how we coordinate this with possible following transactions. We’ll look at working with a few configurations of this tool and how we may apply them in OLAP, OLPT, and mixed environments […]

Learn SQL: INSERT INTO TABLE

December 12, 2019 by

In the previous article, we’ve created two tables, and now we’re ready to use the SQL INSERT INTO TABLE command and populate these tables with data. In order to do so, we’ll prepare statements in Excel and then paste these statements into SQL Server and execute them. We’ll also check the contents of both tables […]

Methods to Insert Data into SQL Server

April 10, 2019 by

Summary There are a variety of ways of managing data to insert into SQL Server. How we generate and insert data into tables can have a profound impact on performance and maintainability! This topic is often overlooked as a beginner’s consideration, but mistakes in how we grow objects can create massive headaches for future developers […]

Working With Line Numbers and Errors Using Bulk Insert

January 10, 2019 by

In the first part of reviewing the basics of bulk insert, we looked at importing entire files, specifying delimiters for rows and columns, and bypassing error messages. Sometimes we’ll want to skip first and ending lines, log errors and bad records for review after inserting data, and work with data types directly without first importing […]

T-SQL’s Native Bulk Insert Basics

January 8, 2019 by

From troubleshooting many data flow applications designed by others, I’ve seen a common pattern of over complexity with many designs. Putting aside possible risks by introducing too much complexity, troubleshooting these designs often involves opening many different applications – from a notepad file, to SSIS, to SQL Server Management Studio, to a script tool, etc. […]

Overview of the SQL Insert statement

October 16, 2018 by

This article on the SQL Insert statement, is part of a series on string manipulation functions, operators and techniques. The previous articles are focused on SQL query techniques, all centered around the task of data preparation and data transformation.

BI performance counter: Total inserts

December 25, 2017 by

Applies to SSAS Description This performance counter relates to statistics related to the Analysis Services aggregation cache and it measures the total number of insertions into the cache per partition per cube per Analysis Services database. The value of this counter is usually high and is reset whenever the Analysis Services is restarted. Resolved by […]

How to use parallel insert in SQL Server 2016 to improve query performance

December 8, 2017 by

Introduction In the first part of this article, we will discuss about parallelism in the SQL Server Engine. Parallel processing is, simply put, dividing a big task into multiple processors. This model is meant to reduce processing time. SQL Server can execute queries in parallel SQL Server creates a path for every query. This path […]

Run SQL SELECT UNIQUE statement

Difference between SQL SELECT UNIQUE and SELECT DISTINCT

January 16, 2024 by

Today, we will learn the difference between SQL SELECT UNIQUE and SELECT DISTINCT in this article. As we all know that SQL is a query language that is used to access, create, delete, and modify data stored in a database system like SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, etc. All these database systems have their query language […]