Bulk Exporting Data from or Bulk Importing Data to a View
You can bulk export data from any view by using a bcp command.
You can bulk import data into a view as follows:
Nonpartitioned views
You can bulk import data into a nonpartitioned view by using a bcp command, a BULK INSERT statement, or an INSERT ... SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(BULK...) statement.
Partitioned views
Bulk importing into a partitioned view is unsupported. However, you can insert multiple rows into a partitioned view, without bulk optimizations, by using an INSERT Transact-SQL statement.
All bulk-import operations meet the rules for inserting data into a view. For information about those rules, see Modifying Data Through a View.
Important
The treatment of default values by any bulk-import operation depends on which bulk-import command or statement was used. For more information, see Keeping Nulls or Using Default Values During Bulk Import.
Example
The following example uses a view of the HumanResources.DepartmentView table of the AdventureWorks2008R2 sample database. From a query tool such as SQL Server Management Studio Query Editor, execute:
CREATE VIEW DepartmentView AS
SELECT DepartmentID, Name, GroupName
FROM HumanResources.Department;
GO
The following command bulk exports the data from the DepartmentView view into the DepartmentView.txt data file. At the Microsoft Windows command prompt, enter:
bcp AdventureWorks2008R2..DepartmentView out DepartmentView.txt -c -T
To delete this sample view, execute the following Transact-SQL statement:
DROP VIEW DepartmentView;
GO
Note
For an example of using a view in a BULK INSERT command, see Using a Format File to Skip a Table Column.