this will return: "(1 row(s) affected)" But now I need to know, what data was actually inserted? SQL Server has answered this question in 2005 with the OUTPUT statement: This will return a dataset ...

Microsoft's SQL Server software, used in thousands of businesses ranging from storefront operations to multinational companies, has capabilities to bulk-insert Comma Separated Value files into a ...

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 ...

Statement level is the lowest level of granularity to fail or succeed upon. If you have in your example 100 records in table A to update based upon some logic (e.g. from another table, from a custom ...