Shawn Melton (2/17/2011)
For all purposes then you should not rely on bulk-logged recovery model if you want point-in-time restore for any transaction. Even though you can in some situations do it, you still can't do it at anytime. If you want to guarantee or greatly depend on being able to do a point-in-time recovery your best option would be to choose Full recovery model. If you don't mind loosing some data then bulk-logged could be used.
That's correct, yes. As I said in the question explanation, the recommended approach is to switch to bulk-logged before any bulk operations and switch back to full afterwards. The second link (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190203.aspx) explains it quite well.
Duncan