bulk insert a date in YYYYMM format to date field in MS SQL table

Question

I have a large text file (more than 300 million records). There is a field containing date in YYYYMM format. Target field is of date type and I\'m using MS SQL 2008 R2 serve

Answer 1

There isn't a way to do this on Bulk Insert. You have 2 options.

1. Insert the date as into a varchar field then run a query to convert the date into a DateTime field
2. Use SSIS