SqlBulkCopy Insert with Identity Column

Question

I am using the SqlBulkCopy object to insert a couple million generated rows into a database. The only problem is that the table I am inserting to has an identity column. I have tried setting the SqlBulkCopyOptions to SqlBulkCopyOptions.KeepIdentity and setting the identity column to 0's, DbNull.Value and null. None of which have worked. I feel like I am missing something pretty simple, if someone could enlighten me that would be fantastic. Thanks!

edit To clarify, I do not have the identity values set in the DataTable I am importing. I want them to be generated as part of the import.

edit 2 Here is the code I use to create the base SqlBulkCopy object.

SqlBulkCopy sbc = GetBulkCopy(SqlBulkCopyOptions.KeepIdentity);
sbc.DestinationTableName = LOOKUP_TABLE;

private static SqlBulkCopy GetBulkCopy(SqlBulkCopyOptions options = 
    SqlBulkCopyOptions.Default) 
{
    Configuration cfg = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("/RSWifi");
    string connString =
    cfg.ConnectionStrings.ConnectionStrings["WifiData"].ConnectionString;
    return new SqlBulkCopy(connString, options);
}

user_633098 · Answer

This is how I solved it in .NET (dt is your data table):

dt.Columns.Cast().ForEach((c, i) => sqlBulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add(c.ColumnName, i + 1));

You basically skip the identity (Id) column by assigning your destination columns with an ordinal starting from 1 instead of 0.

user_1657994 · Answer

This is the table

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ProductShippingMethodMap](
    [Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [ProductId] [int] NOT NULL,
    [ShippingMethodId] [int] NOT NULL,
    [ParentProductId] [int] NOT NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_ProductShippingMethodMap] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 
(
    [Id] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

The bellow C# code is working

 DataTable dtQtyData = new DataTable();
        dtQtyData.Clear();
        dtQtyData.Columns.Add("Id", typeof(int));

    dtQtyData.Columns.Add("ProductId", typeof(int));
    dtQtyData.Columns.Add("ShippingMethodId", typeof(int));
    dtQtyData.Columns.Add("ParentProductId", typeof(int));


    for (int i = 0; i < ShippingMethodIds.Length; i++)
    {
        for (int j = 0; j < ProductIds.Length; j++)
        {
            var productId = ProductIds[j];
            var shippingMethodId = ShippingMethodIds[i];
            dtQtyData.Rows.Add(new object[] {0,productId, shippingMethodId, parentProductId });
        }

    }
    var connectionString = new DataSettingsManager().LoadSettings().DataConnectionString;
    SqlBulkCopy bulkcopy = new SqlBulkCopy(connectionString, SqlBulkCopyOptions.Default);
    bulkcopy.DestinationTableName = "ProductShippingMethodMap";
    bulkcopy.WriteToServer(dtQtyData);

user_32429 · Answer

When using the JDBC SQLServerBulkCSVFileRecord structures, the identity column DOES need to be mapped, but the value in the identity column is ignored.

SqlBulkCopy Insert with Identity Column

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