Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Help! - BCP / Bulk Copy

I need top update several tables with new values from an external text file. That would notrmally be a no brainer, (even for me) :) But, what is important this time around, is I can NOT fire the triggers, or every user would get notified of a 150,000 updates.

The text file contains 4 fields
KEYNUM|UpdateField1|UpdateField2|Class

Class will be either 1 or 2, if class = 1 then table 1 contains the record, if class = 2 then table 2 contains the record...

Any help, as always is greatly appreciatedHi,

By default BCP does not fire triggers, it will only fire triggers if you use the FIRE_TRIGGERS hint.

Does that change anything or help?|||Originally posted by bmalar
Hi,

By default BCP does not fire triggers, it will only fire triggers if you use the FIRE_TRIGGERS hint.

Does that change anything or help?

That Part I knew (but thanks). How can I use bcp to update selected records? (i.e. update records based on values in the KEYNUM field)|||Originally posted by GregCrossan
That Part I knew (but thanks). How can I use bcp to update selected records? (i.e. update records based on values in the KEYNUM field)

Sorry I didn't read your post correctly.. I thought you were inserting new records.

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