How to minimize bulk insert time

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I am inserting more than 3 million records stored in .csv file having size of around one GB and it takes more than 4 minutes to finish the operation.

I have developed a windows program to do the same job using C#.Net.

Please help me to minimize this bulk insert operation time..
I want to reduce this time complexity..

please help..

Posted 14-Apr-12 0:06am

djrocks0101

Updated 14-Apr-12 1:57am

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

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Reza Ahmadi 14-Apr-12 6:41am

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Wes Aday · Answer 1 · 2012-04-14T02:08:00

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The quickest/easiest thing that you can do is schedule the task to run in the middle of the night when it's not likely to be noticed.

Inserting millions of records and expecting it to take zero time is simply unreasonable and it's highly unlikely that any amount of coding is going to reduce the amount of time that it takes. Parallel tasks running on multiple cores *might* help but I do not know that for certain.

If you really need to improve the time that it takes to perform this task, then your time and money might be better spent improving your hardware which is probably your bottleneck. Faster drives, more RAM could more more of a difference than any coding that you can do.

Posted 14-Apr-12 2:08am

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Updated 14-Apr-12 2:22am

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djrocks0101 17-Apr-12 2:14am

Thanks for your answer sir..
Actually, the file that I am importing is trade file from different stock exchanges and the volume of records are in millions...I just wanna know that what can be different options to optimize the performance of bulk insert...
please suggest me some good solutions.....

[no name] 17-Apr-12 6:46am

Had you actually read my answer to you, you would have seen that probably the only real way to minimize the time is to get faster processors, faster hard drives and more RAM.

djrocks0101 17-Apr-12 9:35am

I am having high system configuration..having 2GB of RAM and Dual core intel processor..I want some solution by code..

[no name] 17-Apr-12 18:30pm

Well then good luck with that.

djrocks0101 25-Apr-12 8:36am

sir please suggest me some solution by code..