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I'm trying to import a correctly quoted CSV file, meaning data is only quoted if it contains a comma, e.g.: 41, Terminator, Black 42, "Monsters, Inc.", Blue I observe that the first row imports correctly, but the second row errors in a manner that suggests the quoted comma was treated as a field separator. I have seen suggestions such as this one SQL Bulk import from CSV to change the field terminator FIELDTERMINATOR='","' However, my CSV file only quotes fields that need it, so I do not believe that suggestion would work. Can SQL Server's BULK IMPORT statement import a correctly quoted CSV

Below is my code that I'd like some help with. I am having to run it over 1,300,000 rows meaning it takes up to 40 minutes to insert ~300,000 rows. I figure bulk insert is the route to go to speed it up? Or is it because I'm iterating over the rows via for data in reader: portion? #Opens the prepped csv file with open (os.path.join(newpath,outfile), 'r') as f: #hooks csv reader to file reader = csv.reader(f) #pulls out the columns (which match the SQL table) columns = next(reader) #trims any extra spaces columns = [x.strip(' ') for x in columns] #starts SQL statement query = 'bulk insert into

I have a file (which has 10 million records) like below: line1 line2 line3 line4 ....... ...... 10 million lines So basically I want to insert 10 million records into the database. so I read the file and upload it to SQL Server. C# code System.IO.StreamReader file = new System.IO.StreamReader(@"c:\test.txt"); while((line = file.ReadLine()) != null) { // insertion code goes here //DAL.ExecuteSql("insert into table1 values("+line+")"); } file.Close(); but insertion will take a long time. How can I insert 10 million records in the shortest time possible using C#? Update 1: Bulk INSERT: BULK