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  • cooljagadeesh (3/27/2014)


    which way is the better for 1 million records inserting into one table

    1) insert into destination

    select * from source

    2) BULK INSERT destination

    FROM '\\computer\source.txt';

    3) BCP

    Quick questions; is this a one off thing? Does it need to be managed, logged, reported? Are all files in the same format? Is speed more important than server load? :w00t: Or is there a file in the first place? Is it maybe a table to table load? 😎

    The options you list imply both table and file source.