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Bulk Import and Export of Data (SQL Server). 4 minutes to read.In this articleAPPLIES TO: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Data Warehouse Parallel Data WarehouseSQL Server supports exporting data in bulk ( bulk data) from a SQL Server table and importing bulk data into a SQL Server table or nonpartitioned view.Bulk exporting refers to copying data from a SQL Server table to a data file.Bulk importing refers to loading data from a data file into a SQL Server table. For example, you can export data from a Microsoft Excel application to a data file and then bulk import that data into a SQL Server table.Methods for bulk importing and exporting dataSQL Server supports bulk exporting data from a SQL Server table and for bulk importing data into a SQL Server table or nonpartitioned view. The following basic methods are available. NoteOnly the bcp utility is supported by Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL DW for importing and exporting delimited files.
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Format filesThe, and all support the use of a specialized format file that stores format information for each field in a data file. A format file might also contain information about the corresponding SQL Server table. The format file can be used to provide all the format information that is required to bulk export data from and bulk import data to an instance of SQL Server.Format files provide a flexible way to interpret data as it is in the data file during import, and also to format data in the data file during export.
This flexibility eliminates the need to write special-purpose code to interpret the data or reformat the data to the specific requirements of SQL Server or the external application. For example, if you are bulk exporting data to be loaded into an application that requires comma-separated values, you can use a format file to insert commas as field terminators in the exported data.SQL Server supports two kinds of format files: XML format files and non-XML format files.The is the only tool that can generate a format file.
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