Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 03/10/06 00:46

Dan Guzman (guzmanda@nospam-online.sbcglobal.net) writes:
>> BEGIN TRANSACTION
>> DELETE * FROM Whatever
>> BULK INSERT INTO Whatever...(etc)
>> COMMIT TRANSACTION
>
> These statements run consecutively and not in parallel. You shouldn't
> get a PK violation unless the file contains duplicate data so it looks
> to me like you found a bug. I can repro this under SQL 2000 but no
> problem under SQL 2005.

Would mind sharing that repro? It sounds like a pretty wild bug to me;
one of the kind that make you ask "how do they do it?"

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