bulk insert sql server

Question

When using the T-SQL Bulk insert command from SQL Server Management Stuidio, I am getting this error randomly. Not everytime. Sometimes it would work completely fine and sometimes it throws me the below error.

Error: Cannot bulk load because the file "\\xxxxx\\xxxxxx\\xxxxxx\\xxxxxxx\\xxxxxxx.xsd" could not be opened. Operating system error code 1326(Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.).

I can access the share drive from my machine and in fact, I was the one who kept that file in that particular share drive.

Answer 1

Use UNC paths:

\\yourcomputername\sharename\filename.xsd

Bulk inserts use delegation, so make sure your share can be accessed by the user that performs the BULK INSERT command in SQL Server.