bcp

(ANSWER) How to export some Geography data from a Microsoft Sql Server 2008. You'll need to use the command line argument BCP to dump the data in it's original (native) format to a binary file. Then on the other server you can bulk insert this binary data back into a table of the same strucutre. here's some code. Export Command Line: bcp "geodata.dbo.GeographyData" out "C:\GeoData.bin" -T -n -S <servername> Notes This uses a Trusted connection use the bcp /? for more help for your export options if u need to be hardcore. Importing the data T-SQL: bulk insert GeographyData from 'C:\GeoData.bin'

So BCP for inserting data into a SQL Server DB is very very fast. What is is doing that makes it so fast? In SQL Server, BCP input is logged very differently than traditional insert statements. How SQL decides to handle things depends on a number of factors and some are things most developers never even consider like what recovery model the database is set to use. bcp uses the same facility as BULK INSERT and the SqlBulkCopy classes. More details here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188365.aspx The bottom line is this, these bulk operations log less data than normal operations and

I have the bcp tool, it came pre-built with the boost installer. I'd like to extract the dependencies I need from boost into a smaller file, since I'd like to be able to build this project at school. I'm trying to use bcp, but I don't understand how to use it, despite these instructions: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/tools/bcp/doc/html/index.html#bcp.syntax I've tried typing: bcp boost/thread.hpp /"E:\documents\Dropbox\School\Comp 445\Comp445_Assign2_v2\boost2" from the command prompt, from within my boost folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\boost\boost_1_51 It just spits out a "usage" guide

Is there a direct route that is pretty straight forward? (i.e. can SQL Server read XML) Or, is it best to parse the XML and just transfer it in the usual way via ADO.Net either as individual rows or perhaps a batch update? I realize there may be solutions that involve large complex stored procs--while I'm not entirely opposed to this, I tend to prefer to have most of my business logic in the C# code. I have seen a solution using SQLXMLBulkLoad, but it seemed to require fairly complex SQL code. For reference, I'll be working with about 100 rows at a time with about 50 small pieces of data for