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Re: BCP ordering?

From	Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>
Newsgroups	comp.databases.ms-sqlserver
Subject	Re: BCP ordering?
Date	2011-06-11 00:05 +0200
Organization	Erland Sommarskog
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blindsey (blindsey@dsicdi.com) writes:
> Can I generate an identity column when importing using BCP that will
> sequence by the physical order of the records?

I was told by SQL Server developers that you cannot rely on this. So I submitted a Connect item to call for this:
http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/278452/there-needs-to-be-a-way-to-preserve-order-when-bulk-loading-a-file

And I was told, that order is in fact guaranteed.

To be honest, I don't know what to believe. Try it, but keep your eyes open.

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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    Re: BCP ordering? Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2011-06-17 23:35 +0200
      Re: BCP ordering? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-06-17 15:25 -0700
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