Hello all. <BR>I have a collection of comma delimited text files sitting on a network drive. This data needs to be imported daily into our production tables. The destination tables vary depending upon ...

The importance of automating processes can’t be overestimated. Most things start out as a manual procedure until you work out exactly how things should happen, but many times they stay that way ...

SQL Bulk Insert has been tuned over the years to work well with the Microsoft .NET Framework. This tutorial shows you how to take advantage of its power. SQL Bulk Insert is not a new technology. In ...

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, SQL Server "Yukon" All versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server "Yukon" provide two ways to write procedural code that executes inside the database. The usual way is ...

This is good enough to prevent some traffic jams — like query processes consuming too many resources on an OLTP server, for example — but it’s a far cry from what’s needed to define and isolate rogue ...

Microsoft announced the name and many of the new features in the next release of SQL Server at its Data Amp Virtual Event on Wednesday. While SQL Server 2017 may not have as comprehensive of a feature ...