SqlBulkCopy Getting Started

Why SqlBulkCopy?

In most of the cases, we need to insert a large number of records into one or more tables in a SQL Server database.

• Inserting one record using a SqlCommand along with an INSERT INTO statement at a time is very costly and slow.
• We need an efficient solution to insert a large number of records quickly.
• To achieve a suitable solution, .NET provide a class called SqlBulkCopy which is part of the System.Data.SqlClient namespace.

SqlBulkCopy

The SqlBulkCopy class helps us transfer data from one data source to another, whether on a single server or between servers.

• There are other ways to load data into a SQL Server table such as INSERT statements, but SqlBulkCopy offers a significant performance advantage over them.
• We can transfer the data with high performance to SQL Server using SQLBulkCopy.WriteToServer() method.
• We can read data from any data source as long as that data can be loaded to DataTable or read by IDataReader.

using (var connection = new SqlConnection(FiddleHelper.GetConnectionStringSqlServer()))
{
    connection.Open();

    using (var sqlBulk = new SqlBulkCopy(connection))
    {
        sqlBulk.DestinationTableName = "Customers";
        sqlBulk.WriteToServer(dt);
    }
}

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