How to solve error 32: Cannot bulk load because the file "" could not be opened. Operating system error code 32(The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.).

mrblonde 216 Reputation points
2021-03-03T15:11:48.297+00:00

I am deploying an Azure Database, the database has Azure blob Storage as an external datasource.

From that Azure blob Storage i am bulk loading a file.

When i run the bulk load from a database in my test tenant under my MSDN subscription, everything is fine. The database is able to bulk load from the blobstorage.

When i run the bulk load from a database that is automatically deployed through a build pipeline, with the same external datasource to the blob storage, i get the error
"Cannot bulk load because the file "" could not be opened. Operating system error code 32(The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.)."

What is going on?
Obviously it cannot be that the file is being used by another process, because then the error should exist in both environments, right?

To be clear:
The Blob storage and the file in the blob storage is the exact same in both cases. The only difference is the database from which i am trying to bulk load.

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Azure Blob Storage
An Azure service that stores unstructured data in the cloud as blobs.
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  1. mrblonde 216 Reputation points
    2021-03-03T15:47:49.737+00:00

    ok. There was a typo in the pipeline command and thus the wrong url to the blob storage was set.

    The error message had nothing to do with the actual error in the build.

    If the error message had been "Blob storage not found" or even "file not found" I would have solved this much much sooner.


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