How do you import a large MS SQL .sql file?

Question

I use RedGate SQL data compare and generated a .sql file, so I could run it on my local machine. But the problem is that the file is over 300mb, which means I can\'t do copy

Answer 1

I had exactly the same issue and had been struggling for a while then finally found the solution which is to set -a parameter to the sqlcmd in order to change its default packet size:

sqlcmd -S [servername] -d [databasename] -i [scriptfilename] -a 32767