INF: Using BCP to Import Image Data into SQL Server

ID Number: Q69286

1.10 1.11 4.20

OS/2

Summary:

You can use BCP to copy a file as image data into SQL Server. For

example, to load the file TEST.DOC into a table, "Image" run BCP as

follows:

bcp pubs..image in test.doc -Usa -P -Ssvr

Answer the prompts to BCP as follows:

- Enter the file storage type of field c1 [image]: [Enter]

- Enter the prefix length of field c1 [4]: 0

- Enter length of field c1 [4096]: 5578 (the length of your file)

- Enter the field terminator [none]:

The file will be loaded into column c1.

Additional reference words: bulk copy 1.10 1.11 4.20