SimpleSqlBulkCopy

Lets you efficiently bulk load a SQL Server table with data from a Typed List. This uses System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy and just wraps it for a more developer-friendly interface

Remarks

Microsoft SQL Server includes a popular command-prompt utility named bcp for moving data from one table to another, whether on a single server or between servers. The SqlBulkCopy class lets you write managed code solutions that provide similar functionality. There are other ways to load data into a SQL Server table (INSERT statements, for example), but SqlBulkCopy offers a significant performance advantage over them.

The SqlBulkCopy class can be used to write data only to SQL Server tables. However, the data source is not limited to SQL Server; any data source can be used, as long as the data can be loaded to a DataTable instance or read with a IDataReader instance.

This project, in turn, makes it easier to write a list of typed objects instead of a DataTable or IDataReader.

Usage

1. Install SimpleSqlBulkCopy Package from NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/SimpleSqlBulkCopy/
2. Alternatively you can download this repo and build the source
3. Once you have included the library in your project you can just create an instance of SimpleSqlBulkCopy which takes a Connection String or an SqlConnection instance.
4. Call the WriteToServer method which takes in the destination table name and a list of objects with their properties matching the database entry table.

Example

using (var ssbc = new SimpleSqlBulkCopy("ConnectionString"))
{
    ssbc.WriteToServer("TableName", IEnumerable<T>);
}

where T is an object of the same Properties (and Type of the Database)

If the name of the column on the target database does match the name of the property on your call you can create the mapping by using the Column attribute from System.ComponentModel.DataAnnoations. An example of this can be seen in the Demo program where the property of "Foo" on the MyClass class is mapped to the database column of Bar.