Comments on: Partitioning Tricks

By: Hans Nelsen

Hans Nelsen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:41:20 +0000

Thanks for the great post. We were having the same problem and wound up dropping the constraint and rebuilding it. That solution bugged me. Turns out the problem was upstream in bcp. You need to pass bcp the -h “CHECK CONSTRAINTS” hint in order for it to fire the constraint on entry. BULK INSERT requires a hint as well.

Obviously, this will slow down the insert process, so testing against your data footprint will determine if the bcp hint should be given or the drop and re-create method is faster.

Thanks for the article.

By: Vamsi

Vamsi — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:12:17 +0000

On the check constraint error did you make sure your column doesnot allow nulls or if it does change your constraint accordingly. Just a thought.

Thanks.

By: Hug Shebbeare

Hug Shebbeare — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:53:23 +0000

Thank you, this is great – plus the compression addy makes my day

By: SqlServerKudos

SqlServerKudos — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:58:25 +0000

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