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SQL Server 2005 Mass Insert
The SQL Server 2005 Mass Insert connector provides a rapid way of inserting records into a SQL Server 2005 database. It bypasses the transactional layer of the SQL Server database and adds information directly to the storage tables. This connector is a useful option if you are dealing with large tables and performance is of paramount importance.
Tip...  Under Server Name, enter the name of your server. If SQL Server is installed locally, leave this line blank.
Note:  To connect to a data table in a SQL Server 2005 database, the SQL Server engine must be running in the background.
Connector-Specific Notes
SQL Server 2005 Mass Insert does not transform to updateable views, only to tables.
The Update Mode is not an available option for this connector, since it is a mass insert application.
Process Limitation: This connector cannot be used in a multithreaded process. The mass insert feature causes problems when more than one thread runs parallel in a process. Use the single-thread process instead. Important: Your process can include multiple transformations running in parallel to different tables.
Connector Parts
Connector parts are the fields you configure to connect with a data source or target.
The settings that are available depend on the connector you select.
For a list of all parts for target connectors, see Specifying Connector, Parts, and Properties.
Property Options
You can specify the following target properties:
Property
Description
CommitFrequency
Allows you to control how often data is committed to the database when the AutoCommit property is set to False.
The default value is zero that is, the data is committed at the end of the transformation, allowing rollback on error. This is the slowest setting. When performing large transformations, this is not practical as it may produce too many transaction log entries.
Specifying a nonzero value indicates that data is committed to the database after inserting or updating specified number of records.
ConstraintDDL
This is a pass-through mechanism that allows you to specify any additional data definition language (DDL) statements that need to be executed when a new table is created. DDL is used to define keys, indexes, constraints and integrity rules for SQL databases. There is no default.
Encoding
Type of encoding to use with source and target files. Default is OEM.
IdentityInsert
The integration platform does not automatically insert Identity fields into your database. The default is false. If you want to allow Identity fields, you must change this property to true.
SystemTables
If set to true, this property allows you to see all tables created by the DBA in the database. The system table names appear in the table list. Default is false.
Note:  This property is applicable only if the user is logged onto the database as the database administrator. Only the DBA has access to system tables.
Tablock
Either true (default) or false.
Views
If set to True, this property allows you to see the view names in the table list along with the table names. Default is True.
Note:  This property supports only Append and DeleteAndAppend output modes and does not support the Replace output mode.
Encoding Notes
Shift-JIS encoding is meaningful only in Japanese operating systems.
UCS-2 is no longer considered a valid encoding name, but you may use UCS2. In the XML file, change UCS-2 to UCS2.
The Encoding property is not the encoding of the database that you connect to, but rather the encoding in which the connector expects to receive SQL query statements to be sent to the database.
Supported Data Types
ID field types are not supported.
Note:  When your target is SQL Server 2005 Mass Insert, you can set the maximum length of variable length data types (such as varchar, nvarchar, varbinary) beyond the maximum 8000 KB. The maximum can be up to 231–1 (2 GB – 1). If the length supplied is more than 8000, the engine automatically sets the MAX argument.
Last modified date: 02/09/2024