difference between bcp and bulk insert
Bulk Insert - Bulk Copy or BCP (Difference and Comparison) in SQL Server 2005. Now I wrote quite a few articles on BULK COPY and BULK INSERT commands so I thought to give one separate article for differences between BULK INSERT and BULK COPY (BCP). Let me start with its type. BULK INSERT is a SQL command and BCP is a separate utility outside SSMS and you need to run BCP from DOS prompt (command prompt). BULK INSERT can copy data from flat file to SQL Serverâs table whereas BCP is for import and export both.
Hi sti2006, 1.BCP : is a command prompt utility 2. BULK INSERT statement cannot bulk copy data from an instance of SQL Server to a data file. 3. 2. BULK INSERT statement cannot bulk copy data from an instance of SQL Server to a data file.