bulk insert a date in YYYYMM format to date field in MS SQL table
问题 I have a large text file (more than 300 million records). There is a field containing date in YYYYMM format. Target field is of date type and I'm using MS SQL 2008 R2 server. Due to huge amount of data I'd prefer to use bulk insert. Here's what I've already done: bulk insert Tabela_5 from 'c:\users\...\table5.csv' with ( rowterminator = '\n', fieldterminator = ',', tablock ) select * from Tabela_5 201206 in file turns out to be 2020-12-06 on server, whereas I'd like it to be 2012-06-01 (I don