SqlBulkCopy cannot access table

Question

After reading in an excel-sheet (to transferTable), I want to add that data to a new table (destinationTable) using SqlBulkCopy, but I\'m getting the error:

Answer 1

In my case, it's not a permission problem, but a special char in the table name problem ( parenthesis and & ).

Hope this helps

Answer 2

It seems that the user who executes this code don't have proper access to the database. * Check so that the user got access. * Check the connectionstring your using to connect to the database.

Answer 3

In my case, the problem was because of an existing Identity column

Answer 4

Interestingly, this also happens if you have a table name which is purely numeric. Start the table name with one or more alpha characters and it works just fine.

Answer 5

My issue was a bit different, turns out my table name was a reserved keyword in SQL so I had to do the following:

bulkCopy.DestinationTableName = $"{schema}.[{tableName}]";

Where schema is the target schema and tableName the target table name

From the documentation

DestinationTableName is a three-part name [database].[owningschema].[name]. You can qualify the table name with its database and owning schema if you choose. However, if the table name uses an underscore ("_") or any other special characters, you must escape the name using surrounding brackets as in ([database].[owningschema].[name_01])

Answer 6

Check that user that connects to db has

GRANT ALTER ON [dbo].[TABLE_XXX] TO [appuser] 

as suggested in answer by Jhilden on MSDN forum.