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Re: BCP ordering?

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From	Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>
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Subject	Re: BCP ordering?
Date	Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:35:12 +0200
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Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:18:07 -0700 (PDT), blindsey
><blindsey@dsicdi.com> wrote:
>>Can I generate an identity column when importing using BCP that will
>>sequence by the physical order of the records?
> 
>      What physical order?
> 
>      A file can be in chunks all over a volume.  If you mean within
> the file, the DBMS could write a row anywhere it has space to do so.
> 
>      You have to define an order if you want one.
 
Gene, he is talking about reading a text file into SQL Server with
the BCP command. Text files typically have a physical order. Well, 
if you want to talk disk blocks, that's really a logical order. But
ordered they are.


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

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BCP ordering? blindsey <blindsey@dsicdi.com> - 2011-06-10 06:18 -0700
  Re: BCP ordering? Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2011-06-11 00:05 +0200
  Re: BCP ordering? stukie <stukieh@gmail.com> - 2011-06-17 06:53 +0000
  Re: BCP ordering? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-06-17 12:15 -0700
    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
        Re: BCP ordering? Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2011-06-18 11:29 +0200

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