Using parallel bulk copy on partitioned tables

To copy sorted data in parallel into a specific partition:

bcp copies each file or set of line numbers to a separate partition. For example, to use parallel bulk copy to copy in sorted data to mydb..bigtable from four files into four partitions, enter:

bcp mydb..bigtable:1 in file1 -Pmypassword -c &
bcp mydb..bigtable:2 in file2 -Pmypassword -c &
bcp mydb..bigtable:3 in file3 -Pmypassword -c &
bcp mydb..bigtable:4 in file4 -Pmypassword -c &