BCP (Bulk Copy Program)

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Skipping Columns (& other tricks) Using BCP Format Files (SQL Spackle)

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BULK INSERT and BCP are powerful, high performance tools for importing text files. SQL Server MVP Jeff Moden gives us several nifty tips in this introduction to BULK INSERT and BCP Format Files including "Skipping Columns" and the sequestration of bad rows while still loading all the good data.

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2024-11-22 (first published: )

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Getting ANY of the data

I have this data in two tables:

-- Beer table
BeerIDBeerNamebrewer
5Becks    Interbrew
6Fat Tire   New Belgium
7Mac n Jacks  Mac & Jack's Brewery
8Alaskan AmberAlaskan Brewing 
9Kirin        Kirin Brewing

-- Beercount table
BeerName      BottleCount
Becks         5
Fat Tire      1
Mac n Jacks   2
Alaskan Amber 4
NULL          7
Corona        2
Tsing Tao     4
Kirin         12
What is returned from this query?
SELECT *
FROM dbo.BeerCount AS bc
WHERE bc.BeerName=ANY
  (SELECT b2.BeerName FROM dbo.Beer AS b2);
 

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