tbudurovych / SimpleSqlBulkCopy

Lets you efficiently bulk load a SQL Server table with data from a Typed List. This uses System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy and just wraps it for a more developer-friendly interface

SimpleSqlBulkCopy

Lets you efficiently bulk load a SQL Server table with data from a Typed List. This uses System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy and just wraps it for a more developer-friendly interface

Remarks

Microsoft SQL Server includes a popular command-prompt utility named bcp for moving data from one table to another, whether on a single server or between servers. The SqlBulkCopy class lets you write managed code solutions that provide similar functionality. There are other ways to load data into a SQL Server table (INSERT statements, for example), but SqlBulkCopy offers a significant performance advantage over them.

The SqlBulkCopy class can be used to write data only to SQL Server tables. However, the data source is not limited to SQL Server; any data source can be used, as long as the data can be loaded to a DataTable instance or read with a IDataReader instance.

This project, in turn, makes it easier to write a list of typed objects instead of a DataTable or IDataReader.

Usage

1. Install SimpleSqlBulkCopy Package from NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/SimpleSqlBulkCopy/
2. Alternatively you can download this repo and build the source
3. Once you have included the library in your project you can just create an instance of SimpleSqlBulkCopy which takes a Connection String or an SqlConnection instance.
4. Call the WriteToServer method which takes in the destination table name and a list of objects with their properties matching the database entry table.

Example

using (var ssbc = new SimpleSqlBulkCopy("ConnectionString"))
{
    ssbc.WriteToServer("TableName", IEnumerable<T>);
}

where T is an object of the same Properties (and Type of the Database)