Table Valued Parameter: sending data in small chunks

Question

I am reading from a csv file and sending data as table variable to a stored procedure. From what i have tested so far , I am able to process 300k records in 3 mins 30 seconds . The file may contain up to millions of records as we go. I wanted to know if its a good idea to send all these records to the stored procedure in one go or Should I send them in batches of say 500k? I have set the command timeout to 1800.

Answer 1

An example of using IEnumerable SqlDataRecord
It works kind of like a reverse datareader

Notice I sort. This is by the clustered index. Fragmentation of the indexes will absolutely kill load speed. The first implementation used Insert Values (unsorted) and in a 12 hour run this version is literally 100x faster. I also disable indexes other than the PK and reindex at the end of the load. In a long run I am getting about 500 rows / second. Your sample is 1400 / second so great. If you start to see degradation then things to look at.

public class DocFTSinXsCollection : List<DocFTSinX>, IEnumerable<SqlDataRecord>
{
    // used by TVP for fast insert
    private int sID;
    private IEnumerable<DocFTSinX> docFTSinXs;
    IEnumerator<SqlDataRecord> IEnumerable<SqlDataRecord>.GetEnumerator()
    {
        //todo fix the order in 3 to sID, wordID1, workID2
        var sdr = new SqlDataRecord(
        new SqlMetaData("wordID1", System.Data.SqlDbType.Int),
        new SqlMetaData("wordID2", System.Data.SqlDbType.Int),
        new SqlMetaData("sID", System.Data.SqlDbType.Int),
        new SqlMetaData("Delta", System.Data.SqlDbType.Int));
        foreach (DocFTSinX oh in docFTSinXs.OrderBy(x => x.Word1).ThenBy(x => x.Word2))
        {
            sdr.SetInt32(0, oh.Word1);
            sdr.SetInt32(1, oh.Word2);
            sdr.SetInt32(2, sID);
            sdr.SetInt32(3, (Int32)oh.Delta);
            yield return sdr;
        }
    }

    public DocFTSinXsCollection(int SID, IEnumerable<DocFTSinX> DocFTSinXs)
    {
        sID = SID;
        docFTSinXs = DocFTSinXs;
        //Debug.WriteLine("DocFTSinXsCollection DocFTSinXs " + DocFTSinXs.Count().ToString());
    }
}

Other tools to consider are the SQLBulkCopy .NET class and Drapper.

OP asked how to perform in batches.

 while (true)
 {
     // if no more break;
     // fill list or datatable with next 100000
     // send list or datatable to db
 }