Continuing a transaction after primary key violation error

Question

I am doing a bulk insert of records into a database from a log file. Occasionally (~1 row out of every thousand) one of the rows violates the primary key and causes the tran

Answer 1

Or you can use SSIS and have the failed rows take a differnt path than the successful ones.

SInce you are usinga differnt database can you bulk insert the files to a staging table and then use SQL code to select only those records which do not have an exisitng id?