Static Versus Dynamic Bulk Insert Imports of Multi-File Datasets
There are numerous use cases for multi-file imports of CSV files into a SQL Server table:
2025-10-31
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T‑SQL BULK INSERT vs OPENROWSET: CSV Imports, File Access Gotchas, and A PowerShell Script
Most SQL bulk insert and SQL Server openrowset tutorials skip file access issues that can stop imports cold. Both the bulk insert statement and openrowset function rely on the SQL Server service account to read a source file. The SQL Server service account must have read permission on the file or its folder. It is also convenient to have read & execute as well as list folder content permissions.
2025-10-17
SQL Bulk Insert Command Examples
Learn about the SQL Server BULK INSERT command and how to use it to import text data in a SQL Server database table.
2024-05-31
SQL Server Bulk Insert Row Terminator Issues
We often need to import data into SQL Server from a file. Sometimes unwanted end of line characters are part of the source file and these can create issues when importing the data. One of the ways to avoid this issue is to use SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), but it doesn't always make sense to use SSIS for simple operations. Rahul Mehta explains that he uses BULK INSERT sometimes faces issues with Line Feeds and Carriage Returns. In this post, Rahul shows some examples and explains how to fix the issue.
2017-03-17
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2017-02-21
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2017-01-19
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Dynamic SQL procedure for bulk insert
https://github.com/ktaranov/sqlserver-kit/blob/master/Stored_Procedure/usp_BulkUpload.sql
2017-11-17 (first published: 2015-05-16)
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SQL-only ETL using a bulk insert into a temporary table (SQL Spackle)
This article demonstrates a method of importing a data file directly into a temporary table and selectively inserting data from the temporary table into a SQL Server table, all in a single set of SQL commands.
2014-07-22
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Error logging with Bulk Insert
Bulk Insert statement has an important feature of error logging which is rarely used.
2013-04-04
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ERRORFILE and MAXERRORS option with BULK INSERT
ERRORFILE and MAXERRORS option are rarely used important arguments in BULK INSERT so, I will try to highlight the use of these arguments in this script.
2013-02-28 (first published: 2013-02-14)
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The Read Committed Snapshot Isolation behaviour
I am currently working with Sql Server 2022 and AdventureWorks database. First of all, let's set the "Read Committed Snapshot" to ON:
use master; go alter database AdventureWorks set read_committed_snapshot on with no_wait; goThen, from Session 1, I execute the following code:
--Session 1 use AdventureWorks; go create table ##t1 (id int, f1 varchar(10)); go insert into ##t1 values (1, 'A');From another session, called Session 2, I open a transaction and execute the following update:
--Session 2 use AdventureWorks; go begin tran; update ##t1 set f1 = 'B' where id = 1;Now, going back to Session 1, what happens if I execute this statement?
--Session 1 select f1 from ##t1 where id = 1;See possible answers