bcp Description Copies a database to or from an operating system file in a user-specified format. Syntax bcp [[database_name.]owner.][view_name | table_name [:partition_id]] {in | out} datafile[-c] [-E] [-n] [-X] [-a display_charset] [-A size] [-b batchsize] [-e errfile] [-f formatfile] [-F firstrow] [-g id_start_value] [-I interfaces_file] [-J client_charset] [-L lastrow] [-m maxerrors] [-P password] [-q datafile_charset] [-r row_terminator] [-R remote_server_principal] [-S server] [-t field_terminator] [-T text_or_image_size] [-U username] [-z language] or bcp -v Parameters database_name is optional if the table being copied is in your default database or in master. Otherwise, you must specify a database name. owner is optional if you or the Database Owner owns the table being copied. If you do not specify an owner, bcp looks first for a table of that name that you own, and then looks for one owned by the Database Owner. If another user owns the table, you must specify the owner name or the command fails. view_name is the name of the view you are copying out. table_name is the name of the database table to copy. Partition number partition_number does not exist in table table_name. partition_id is the identifier of the partition into which to copy. in | out is the direction of the copy. in indicates a copy from a file into the database table; out indicates a copy to a file from the database table or view. datafile is the full path name of an operating system file. The path name can be from 1 to 255 characters in length. -c performs the copy operation with char datatype as the default. This parameter does not prompt for each field; it uses char as the default storage type, no prefixes, \t (tab) as the default field terminator, and \n (newline) as the default row terminator. -E explicitly specifies the value of a table's IDENTITY column. By default, when you bulk copy data into a table with an IDENTITY column, bcp assigns each row a temporary IDENTITY column value of 0. As bcp inserts each row into the table, the server assigns the row a unique, sequential IDENTITY column value, beginning with the value 1. If you specify the -E flag when copying data into a table, bcp prompts you to enter an explicit IDENTITY column value for each row. If the number of inserted rows exceeds the maximum possible IDENTITY column value, Adaptive Server returns an error. By default, when you bulk copy data from a table with an IDENTITY column, bcp excludes all information about the column from the output file. If you specify the -E flag, bcp copies the existing IDENTITY column values into the output file. You cannot use the -E and -g flags together. -n performs the copy operation using native (operating system) formats. Specifying the -n parameter means bcp will not prompt for each field. Files in native data format are not human-readable. Warning! Do not use bcp in native format for data recovery or salvage or to resolve an emergency situation. Do not use bcp in native format to transport data between different hardware platforms, different operating systems, or different major releases of Adaptive Server. Do not use field terminators (-t) or row terminators (-r) with bcp in native format. Results are unpredictable and data could become corrupted. Using bcp in native format can create flat files that cannot be reloaded into Adaptive Server and it may be impossible to recover the data. If you are unable to re-run bcp in character format (for example, a table was truncated or dropped, hardware damage occurred, a database was dropped, and so on) the data will be unrecoverable. -X specifies that, in this connection to the server, the application initiates the login with client-side password encryption. bcp (the client) specifies to the server that password encryption is desired. The server sends back an encryption key, which bcp uses to encrypt your password, and the server uses the key to authenticate your password when it arrives. -a display_charset allows you to run bcp from a terminal where the character set differs from that of the machine on which bcp is running. Use -a in conjunction with -J to specify the character set translation file (.xlt file) required for the conversion. Use -a without -J only if the client character set is the same as the default character set. The following error message will appear if the character translation file(s) named with the -a parameter is missing, or you mistype the name(s): Error in attempting to determine the size of a pair of translation tables.:'stat' utility failed. -A size specifies the network packet size to use for this bcp session. For example: bcp pubs2..titles out table_out -A 2048 sets the packet size to 2048 bytes for this bcp session. size must be between the values of the default network packet size and maximum network packet size configuration variables, and it must be a multiple of 512. Use larger-than-default network packet sizes to improve the performance of large bulk-copy operations. -b batchsize is the number of rows per batch of data copied (the default is to copy all the rows in one batch). Batching