Copying large amounts of data into a SQL CE database

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Published on 2009-05-19T19:16:38Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 3:33 UTC
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If I have a large amount of data in memory, what is the best way to copy it into a SQL CE table? The current technology stack is C#, ADO.net, and SQL CE.

My initial idea was to do one INSERT statement for each row of data, but this is time-consuming. Is there an easier way?

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