March 21, 2001 03:21 PM

Showdown-bcp vs. DTS

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John Green
SQL Server Magazine
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Which SQL Server data pump gets data in and out faster?
Every SQL Server application manager needs to move a large amount of data into or out of a SQL Server database at least once, so SQL Server has several tools for bulk data-transfer operations. In this article, I compare two familiar SQL Server utility programs—bulk copy program (bcp) and Data Transformation Services (DTS)—in a common scenario: moving data to and from an ASCII text file. I compare the perf...

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in the article it is mentioned "(i.e., bcp doesn't offer a simple way to automatically create text data files with comma-delimited fields and quoted text fields), ", this is exactly what I am trying to do, although dynamically so the table I am selecting from can be any table, do you know how this can be accomplished?

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Kevin 4/17/2002 1:41:32 PM

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