无法从SQL Server 2005中的现有表中的新表中插入记录

Question

I need to insert records into a new table from an existing table. I used the following query to do this:

Insert into Newtable
Select * from Oldtable where date1 = @date

This query works most of the time, but in one scenario I get 10 million records to be inserted for the date1 value. In this case I'm getting the following error message:

Error : The transaction log for database "tempDB" is full. To find out why space in the log cannot be reused, see the log_reuse_wait_desc column in sys.databases

Should I break the query into parts and insert them sequentially, or is there a way to do this with the current query?

Answer 1

This is, perhaps, a distasteful suggestion. But, you can try exporting the data to a file and then inserting using bulk-insert, with database logging set to SIMPLE or BULK-LOGGED.

More information is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190422.aspx .