SQL Bulk Insert has been tuned over the years to work well with the Microsoft .NET Framework. This tutorial shows you how to take advantage of its power. SQL Bulk Insert is not a new technology. In ...

When you insert new records into an SQL database, you may run into issues where you accidentally overwrite records that are already present due to a duplication issue. You can use a simple alteration ...

Arthur Fuller explores the value of identity columns and the usefulness of their arbitrary values and discusses ways to use SQL Server 2000's IDENTITY_INSERT setting. Despite your numerous ...

If I have a variable rs ("ColumnA") that is an empty string "" and I want to insert it into a table as a NULL instead, isn't there a SQL function that would ...

I've had the same issue before and resorted to using a query that does the insert then returns @@identity. You can do it without a full blown stored procedure and just using an SqlCommand, IIRC.

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