Scenarios for Bulk Importing and Exporting Data

The bcp command, BULK INSERT statement, or INSERT ... SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(BULK...) statement support several basic scenarios. The following table summarizes the scenarios that are supported by each of these methods:

Note

Bulk importing into a partitioned view is unsupported by bcp, BULK INSERT, or INSERT ... SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(BULK...). Attempts to bulk import data into a partitioned view fail.

The following topics discuss the major scenarios.

Topic	Description
Copying Data Between Servers	Contains descriptions of the different data formats that you can use when copying data between instances of Microsoft SQL Server.
Copying Data Between Different Collations	Contains instructions on how to transfer data between different collations, including the use of either column-level collations or code pages that apply to all the columns.
Exporting Data from a Query to a Data File	Contains information on how to export a result set from a Transact-SQL statement to a data file.
Exporting Data from or Importing Data to a Temporary Table	Contains information on how to export or import data to or from a temporary table.
Bulk Exporting Data from or Bulk Importing Data to a View	Contains information on how to export or import data to or from a view.

See Also

Concepts

Basic Guidelines for Bulk Importing Data

Controlling Trigger Execution When Bulk Importing Data

Other Resources

Format Files for Importing or Exporting Data