large inserts

Dear Experts,

What is the best way to do a large insert WITHOUT having direct access
to the machine SQL Server is running on? For example, imagine I want
to insert something like 20,000 records. If I were to have access to
the server, I could BULK INSERT into a temp table and then insert into
the destination table. But if I can't create a file on the server to
use for BULK INSERT, what is the next best alternative to doing lots
of 1 record insert statements?

Thanks,
-EminOn Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:34:42 -0000, Emin <emin.shopper@.gmail.com>
wrote:

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Originally Posted by

>Dear Experts,
>
>What is the best way to do a large insert WITHOUT having direct access
>to the machine SQL Server is running on? For example, imagine I want
>to insert something like 20,000 records. If I were to have access to
>the server, I could BULK INSERT into a temp table and then insert into
>the destination table. But if I can't create a file on the server to
>use for BULK INSERT, what is the next best alternative to doing lots
>of 1 record insert statements?
>
>Thanks,
>-Emin

The Bulk Copy command line utility BCP.EXE is one alternative, as are
DTS (SQL Server 2000) and SSIS (2005) executing locally.

Roy Harvey
Beacon Falls, CT|||Doesn't the client need something like SQL Management studio installed
to use DTS or SSIS? Ideally, I'd like something where the client can
just connect to the database using odbc or ado and do the insert as
opposed to requiring the client to have special software installed.

Thanks,
-Emin

On Jul 5, 5:28 pm, Roy Harvey <roy_har...@.snet.netwrote:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

>
The Bulk Copy command line utility BCP.EXE is one alternative, as are
DTS (SQL Server 2000) and SSIS (2005) executing locally.
>
Roy Harvey
Beacon Falls, CT

|||On Jul 5, 12:34 pm, Emin <emin.shop...@.gmail.comwrote:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

Dear Experts,
>
What is the best way to do a large insert WITHOUT having direct access
to the machine SQL Server is running on? For example, imagine I want
to insert something like 20,000 records. If I were to have access to
the server, I could BULK INSERT into a temp table and then insert into
the destination table. But if I can't create a file on the server to
use for BULK INSERT, what is the next best alternative to doing lots
of 1 record insert statements?
>
Thanks,
-Emin

You can put your file in a shared folder - BULK INSERT can read it if
it is accessible by the account SQL Server runs under.

Alex Kuznetsov, SQL Server MVP
http://sqlserver-tips.blogspot.com/|||You don't need the full set of client tools to run DTS packages, just
the dtsrun.exe utility. And for SSIS packages there is the dtexec
command line utility, though I have not used it. And as Erland said,
for BCP you need bcp.exe.

Roy Harvey
Beacon Falls, CT

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:55:53 -0000, Emin <emin.shopper@.gmail.com>
wrote:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

>Doesn't the client need something like SQL Management studio installed
>to use DTS or SSIS? Ideally, I'd like something where the client can
>just connect to the database using odbc or ado and do the insert as
>opposed to requiring the client to have special software installed.
>
>Thanks,
>-Emin
>
>On Jul 5, 5:28 pm, Roy Harvey <roy_har...@.snet.netwrote:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

>>
>The Bulk Copy command line utility BCP.EXE is one alternative, as are
>DTS (SQL Server 2000) and SSIS (2005) executing locally.
>>
>Roy Harvey
>Beacon Falls, CT

>