I have a Windows Service application that receives a stream of data with the following format
IDX|20120512|075659|00000002|3|AALI |Astra Agro Lestari Tbk. |0|ORDI_PREOPEN|12 |00000001550.00|00000001291.67|00001574745000|00001574745000|00500|XDS1BXO1| |00001574745000|›§ IDX|20120512|075659|00000022|3|ALMI |Alumindo Light Metal Industry Tbk. |0|ORDI |33 |00000001300.00|00000001300.00|00000308000000|00000308000000|00500|--U3---2| |00000308000000|õÄ
This data comes in millions of rows and in sequence
00000002....00198562 and I have to parse and insert them according to the sequence into a database table.
My question is, what is the best way (the most effective) to insert these data into my database? I have tried to use a simple method as to open a SqlConnection object then generate a string of SQL insert script and then execute the script using SqlCommand object, however this method is taking too long.
I read that I can use Sql BULK INSERT but it has to read from a textfile, is it possible for this scenario to use BULK INSERT? (I have never used it before).
update: I'm aware of SqlBulkCopy but it requires me to have DataTable first, is this good for performance? If possible I want to insert directly from my data source to SQL Server without having to use in memory DataTable.