Scott Ellington’s Blog

There are other tools, but in the process of working on something else, I put together a command line tool for loading shapefiles into Sql Server 2008. It is modeled after PostGIS's shp2pgsql, except that it loads directly into the db instead of writing sql to stdout. Here is the usage:

shp2sqlserver.exe -h
Usage: shp2sqlserver.exe [OPTIONS]+ [...]