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 ...

Type an INSERT statement into the text area, using the following T-SQL code as a guide:INSERT INTO db_table (PDF_field) SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(BULK 'c:\pdf_files\your_document.pdf', SINGLE_BLOB ...

Today's use of BCP -- or SQL Bulk Insert, as it's referred to now -- is much simpler and tightly integrated with the Microsoft .NET Framework. The migration of the Bulk Insert process to the ...

Arthur Fuller explores the value of identity columns and the usefulness of their arbitrary values and discusses ways to use SQL Server 2000's IDENTITY_INSERT setting.

Arthur Fuller responds to a reader who sent him a question recently asking how to display currency amounts in currency format. Check out the solution he offers for the reader's problem.