High performance bulk loading to SQL Server using SqlBulkCopy

If you ever want to bulk load data into an SQL Server database as quickly as possible, the SqlBulkCopy class is your friend (in the System.Data.SqlClient namespace). Since being introduced in .NET 2.0, it has provided an extremely efficient way to bulk load data into SQL Server, and is one the classes that I see as a “must know about”. A usual scenario is where you want to dump some data into the database to then do some processing on. [Read More]