Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 07/05/07 22:32

Emin (emin.shopper@gmail.com) writes:
> Doesn't the client need something like SQL Management studio installed
> to use DTS or SSIS? Ideally, I'd like something where the client can
> just connect to the database using odbc or ado and do the insert as
> opposed to requiring the client to have special software installed.

You can use the BCP API from ODBC, although it may be a bigger programming
effort that you would like. Using command-line BCP is a lot simpler, but
then you need to make sure that it is on the client.

Another alternative is to build an XML document and pass that to a stored
procedure where unpack it. For 20000 rows, I would find this palatable.
Had you had two million rows, BCP would definitely have been the way to
go.


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