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Importing large file while keeping table available for other operations

We need to import millions of rows in a quite big table. Say like 5 million rows into a table with more than 1 billion rows. After preprocessing the import file we will have update operations and ...
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BULK INSERT - best usage

I need to export 150 million rows of only int/bigint columns from one SQL instance to another. I am using BCP queryout to export the rows and BULK INSERT to import the rows to another table. I split ...