For many years, I have been using a C# program to generate the TPC-C compliant data for testing. The program relies on the SqlBulkCopy class to load the data generated as per the TPC-C specifications into the SQL Server tables. In general, the performance of this C# data loader is satisfactory. Lately however, I found myself in a situation ...

It’s a well known good practice to control the batch size when you perform large data changes. For instance, you may need to purge a large amount of data monthly, and if you delete them all in one shot, you may blow up your transaction log. Therefore, it's wise that you chop up the total amount of data to be deleted into smaller chunks and delete ...