Bulk Insert Error Messages SQL Server 2008 R2

Question

Is there any way to capture the error messages that occur during a bulk insert?

If I specify an error file, I get 2 seperate files, one that contains the record that errored, and one that contains the row.

The messages that are displayed for errors contain more information:

Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 1, column 6 (temp_batch_date).

Is it possible to write these messages into a temp table so I can handle them accordingly?

Answer 1

Check out the SqlBulkCopy class to perform the operation and you should have programmatic access to any errors (exceptions) that are generated. This should allow you to attempt recovery/logging.

If you don't want to use Visual Studio (why not? it's free ), you could also use PowerShell .

Handling these errors outside of SQL Server really opens up what/how you can workaround hurdles with your source data.