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I have a cursor looping through a list of tables that I want to
truncate and then do a bulk insert into, Is this possible in SQL
Server 2000 or do script each table individually.

Cheers,
Adam
Nov 26 '07 #1
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Boogha (bo****@gmail.c om) writes:
I have a cursor looping through a list of tables that I want to
truncate and then do a bulk insert into, Is this possible in SQL
Server 2000 or do script each table individually.
Seems like you need to learn dynamic SQL:

EXEC('TRUNCATE TABLE ' + @table)

And while that looks very simple, before you use it all over town, there is
an article on my web site that tries to explain both the benefits and the
pitfalls: http://www.sommarskog.se/dynamic_sql.html.
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Nov 26 '07 #2
On Nov 26, 7:07 am, Boogha <boo...@gmail.c omwrote:
I have a cursor looping through a list of tables that I want to
truncate and then do a bulk insert into, Is this possible in SQL
Server 2000 or do script each table individually.

Cheers,
Adam
If you want to truncate all the tables, then try this
http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/madhiv...s-part-ii.aspx
Nov 26 '07 #3

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