MS-SQL Bulk Insert with RODBC

Question

Is it possible to perform a bulk insert into an MS-SQL Server (2000, 2005, 2008) using the RODBC package?

I know that I can do this using freebcp, but I\'m curious i

Answer 1

Now You can use dbBulkCopy from the new rsqlserver package:

A typical scenario:

1. You create a matrix
2. you save it as a csv file
3. You call dbBulkCopy to read fil and insert it using internally bcp tool of MS Sql server.

This assume that your table is already created in the data base:

dat <- matrix(round(rnorm(nrow*ncol),nrow,ncol)
id.file = "temp_file.csv"                      
write.csv(dat,file=id.file,row.names=FALSE)
dbBulkCopy(conn,'NEW_BP_TABLE',value=id.file)