Best practices for importing large CSV files

Question

My company gets a set of CSV files full of bank account info each month that I need to import into a database. Some of these files can be pretty big. For example, one is abo

Answer 1

If you are using Sql Server and have access to .NET then you can write a quick application to use the SQLBulkCopy class. I've used this in previous projects to get a lot of data into SQL very quickly. The SQLBulkCopy class makes use of SQL Server's BCP, so if you're using something other than .NET it may be worth looking into whether that option is open to you too. Not sure if you're using a DB other than SQL Server.