Bulk insert causing timeout

Hi,
I'm using Bulk Insert to load a file about 1.5GB in size. When I do
this, another process which is continually reading and writing to other
tables in the same database gets a connection time out error. Why might
that be? Is the bulk insert just hogging the i/o?
Also, if I were to load the file into a different database on the same
server am I likely to still get the same error?
Thanks,
Nick
Hi Nick
If you look at the performance counters you may see what the issue with
system is!
You may also want to look at the output from sp_lock just to make sure that
each process is not locking itself out, there may be a trigger that you are
forgetting! If the latter is the case then loading into a staging table may
help, but you could still get blocking when you transfer the information to
the main table, in which case you may have to do the transfer in phases.
John
"nicholastoze@.gmail.com" wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm using Bulk Insert to load a file about 1.5GB in size. When I do
> this, another process which is continually reading and writing to other
> tables in the same database gets a connection time out error. Why might
> that be? Is the bulk insert just hogging the i/o?
> Also, if I were to load the file into a different database on the same
> server am I likely to still get the same error?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>