FreeTDS Development Group

[jklowden AT schemamania.org]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 01:21:53PM +0200, Mark Songhurst wrote:
> I'm using FreeTDS 0.82 on Linux RedHat Enterprise 4.0 x64. My database
> is MS SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition.
> I'm programming in C and using the ctlib API of FreeTDS.
...
> I need the constraint active during the bulk copy to ensure bad data
> is rejected (it's ok for the whole bulk copy to fail if only one data
> item is bad).
...
> Please can you suggest how I can keep constraints enabled during a
> bulk copy using the ctlib API?

To do that, you'll need to modify ct-lib.  Hard, but not too hard.  

In db-lib, we extended the possible values of bcp_options to include hints, 
and
allowed hints to be passed as literal strings.  See
src/dblib/bcp.c::bcp_options().  

You can extend blk_props in the same way.  As long as blkdesc->bcpinfo.hint
points to a valid string e.g. "CHECK_CONSTRAINTS", the tds library will send 
it
to the server before sending the first row.  

It should work!  :-)

HTH.  

--jkl