Sunday, March 25, 2012

Bulk Insert with Mirroring

Can anyone suggest a bulk insert solution in a mirroring environment?
Basically, I'd like to import a text or excel file using SSIS.
Do all the "Flat File" and "Excel" data flow sources use bulk inserts?
Just wondering if I would need to use a "staging" table or something like that since bulk inserts won't be logged when dbs are mirrored. I'm assuming I'd be able to import data using the dataflow sources into a sql destination "staging" table, then do a "INSERT INTO [production] SELECT * FROM [staging]". I'm assuming this will be logged (but slow).

Any help would be appreciated.

BULK INSERT is fully logged in FULL mode, so you should not need to do the intermediate step.

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