Copy SQL Data Structures From One Server To Another
Oct 17, 2007
Hello,
I have a sql database server (let call it server A) which has SQL program files installed on C:, and SQL data structures MSSQL (include subdirectories BAckup, DATA, FTDAT, JOBS, LOG, REPLDATA) on F:. A new server (call it server B) was cloned of server A but only at the C: partition. I still need to manually copy the SQL data structure on F: drive from A to B. The purpose of setting up server B is to test the restore of backup of server A and eventually want it to serve as the standby server should server A crashes. My questions are
1. Can MSSQL directory be copied from A to B without stopping the SQL server service on A first?
2. I will use robocopy for copying data over, what switches should I use to retain all database file security, permission, etc..
3. Currently I can not start the SQL service on server B because part of MSSQL directory is missing from the F: drive. so theorically, after I manually copy that folder over, I should be able to start the sql service. Am I right? Is there any steps that I might have overlook here. Any errors I might encounter doing it this way
Once I can get the sql started, I can take care of the restore part.
Thanks for any insights or suggestions you can provide on this.
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Nov 16, 2006
CREATE TABLE table_name AS SELECT STATEMENT WHERE rownum = 0; this query will copy the table structure of one table without copying the data. I need to copy the table structures of all the tables in a particular database without copying the data.suggest me on this.
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Nov 14, 2006
(Wow; surfing this site has really illuminated what a lowly hack-programmer I am to this field of SQL and relational processing :S )I am creating a temp table, doing an Bill of Material explosion for a single Order Line Item.(note: SQL Server 2000)I used blindman's "accumulator method (click here) (http://www.dbforums.com/showpost.php?p=6239109&postcount=6)" to generate the entire potential BOM tree.So; step 1 works wonderfully! :beer: Cheers blindman!Now; I want to remove unwanted nodes (and all their children) from the temp-table. I have a bunch of functions (0 to 1 for each node) that return a Yes or No. If "No", then flag-to-eliminate immediately that branch and don't revisit anything on it (and therein lies my problem). This will leave me with a temp table of only valid nodes.Since this is recursive, and since it will involve Dynamic SQL (the function name varies), all I can come up with is using a Cursor in a WHILE loop. Even at that; since a CURSOR is point-in-time (ie: values don't change once selected), I'll have to re-check the current temp table values (or create of 2nd temp table of only deleted nodes and repeat a SELECT with NOT EXISTS in it, hmmm).Since blindman's method generates a table ordered by level, the sequence of processing is pre-determined - unless I can re-order it into a more traditional hierarchy (1 entire branch at a time) and number the levels, in which case the cursor could just skip to the next branch of equal or higher level.Note: The thought does occur to me I could have an intermediary function (static name) that in turn does the Dynamic SQL. These functions contain the Business Logic that looks at a myriad of column values and relationships in the database and there's no one-size-fits-all decision tree so Dynamic SQL is necessary.The max cursor size will be maybe 300, and on average 100. Number of levels will normally be 3 or 4, but conceivably could be up to 10. Given the average 100 potential components/sub-assemblies, the final assembly will be about 30. As a periodic background process; it will do 3,000 Order Line Items a day, so I'm figuring 1 second response time per build is adequate (ie: the user's not waiting on it so it doesn't have to be blinding fast) - however why waste?Anyhow; I thought this might be a fun problem for some Data Structure genius who wants to give a lesson in Relational Programming.Thanks for looking.Here's what I have so far:CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.sp_ExplodeTest1 (@recID int = 1) AS/* tbTestH is a table containing an assembly hierarchy. Assemblies with no parent are Builds.Assemblies with no children are Components.It's columns: MyID int, ParentID int, (other descriptive columns)*/declare @t table (TempNodeID int identity(1,1),MyID int)-- Seed the tree with the Build's ID.insert into @t (MyID) values (@recID)/* This populates the temp table with the entire Assembly for the given build. It is Ordered By the level in the assembly. Number of assembly levels is infinite.For example: Level 1 = the Build. It comes firstLevel 2 = all parents are level 1. Is next (no particular seq)Level 3 = all parents are level 2. Is next (no particular seq)etc.*/while @@Rowcount > 0insert into @t (MyID)select tbTestH.MyID from tbTestHinner join @t rList on tbTestH.ParentID = rList.MyIDwhere not exists ( select *from @t CurrentList where CurrentList.MyID = tbTestH.MyID)-- now to display the results so far.select t.*, tbTestH.* from tbTestH inner join @t t on tbTestH.MyID = t.MyID order by t.TempNodeIDGO
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Aug 9, 2007
What is included under SQL Data structures? Could anyone refer me to some good tutorials on that material?
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Oct 5, 2001
A point for general discussion maybe.
I've just read Jeff's query regarding passing an array to a stored procedure, and it seems to be a question that hits the message board quite frequently. There often seems to be the case where you have some block of data in one location, and want to process it somewhere else, and there just isn't an easy way to do it (or is there?). Passing a cursor is possible, but getting data back out of a cursor is painful.
The ways I have used in the past are:
Using a cursor
Using a global temporary table
Using a "permanent" table, but declared with a unique name (using a timestamp) and passing the tablename as a parameter.
Has anybody any suggestions for a future SQL release which we could suggest to Microsoft?
Suggestions from myself:
-Having a single TSQL command to copy a cursor back into a table, to make cursor parameters less cumbersome
-Being able to pass a pointer to a temporary table as an SP parameter
-Allowing variables to be declared with more complex structures (such as arrays, or classes)
Regards,
ChrisH
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Mar 9, 2007
I am trying to traverse a tree structure like below,
1 Pets
--1.1 Cat
----1.1.1 Persian
----1.1.2 Bengal
--1.2 Dog
----1.2.1 Poodle
2 etc
I would like to be able to search by a keyword, i.e. Poodle, or the reference number, i.e. 1.2.1. I would prefer to do this all through a stored procedure if possible, it seems recursion is the way to go as the number of levels may increase in the future but i'm completely new to this. From what i've seen so far I would need a table structure with a parentID,NodeID,Name field and Primary key.
i.e,
ID...Name......Parent.....NodeID
1....Pets.........0............1
2....Cat..........1............1
3....Dog..........1............1
4....Persian.....2............1
5....Bengal......2............2
6....Poodle......3............1
etc
i've heard that SQL SERVER 2005 provides recursion through CTE, is this the recommended way/only way to achieve this?
Any tips on where to start would be really appreciated.
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Hello,
I connect from SQL Server on Windows 2000 to Progress
Database on UNIX.
The database name of SQL Server is cstarsql and the
name is cstarint on UNIX.
I would like to schedule to copy data from
cstarint(Progress) to cstarsql(SQLServer). I did for
one time, but I want to control if the data has
already copied or not. If not, it will copy.
In DTS Query Builder to copy from Progress to SQL
Server,
SELECT * from calls WHERE call_date = TODAY
The name of table of calls is the same for both
database.The above calls is cstarint(Progress
Database)
This command is enough for one time. But I need to
control if the record has already copied.
In SQL Server, I control if the record is available or
not with @@FETCH_STATUS .
Now I would like to mix two queries, but I couldn't.
Can anybody do this?
DECLARE calls_cursor SCROLL CURSOR
FOR SELECT * FROM calls
WHERE call_date = TODAY
OPEN calls_cursor
-- Perform the first fetch.
FETCH NEXT FROM calls_cursor
-- Check @@FETCH_STATUS to see if there are any more
rows to fetch.
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
-- This is executed as long as the previous fetch
succeeds.
FETCH NEXT FROM calls_cursor
END
CLOSE calls_cursor
DEALLOCATE calls_cursor
Alice
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When a user deletes a row from table "A", I would like to copy that row to table "B", so I can restore it if I need to.
TIA
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Aug 18, 2004
Hi,
I am trying to copy the data and tables from My server(SqlServer2000) to another Server(MSDE2000A) using DTS, after some time i am getting an Error " the login PDD Doc handler doesnot exist" failed to copy the data. How to fix this, appreciate your help
Thank You
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Hello
I'm developing an application that need to create everyday information to be stored in a SQL Mobile Database.
The SQL Mobile database will have:
Last schema from tables (in SQL Server database);
Last information in the tables;
I don't want to copy all the tables from SQL Server database than this mecanism should give me the way to choose the tables.
I have been reading about the SqlCeReplication but I don't undestand what is InternetUrl property. The SQL Mobile database is created in the PC and after is copy to the the Mobile Device.
How can I avoid the InternetURL property?
tkx in advance
Paulo Aboim Pinto
Odivelas - Portugal
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Hi,
I am facing a great problem. I have a DB about 80GB. There are 217489811 number of records which include 2005, 2006 and 2007 data in 1 table. Now I want to split the table into by quarter tables 2005Q1, 2005Q2.....etc. It is because it is easier for me to housekeep the old data. (It takes about few hours to housekeep 3 month data currently, so that it affect my server performance a lot)
so I start my work, however it is failed every times. Actually, if I copy 3 month data to a new tables, it is nearly about 30 million records which needs about 1 GB space. However, it takes about 8 hours to complete the job and failed because of not enough space allocated. Actually, my Server has about 50GB space, but when the job complete and fail, all the space is occupied. But i wonder why this happen because the data only need about 1 GB, how come it use 50GB?
it seems that nothing i can do to housekeep the old data. because housekeep the current table takes too long time while splitting tables use up all the space. So how can i do?
For your information, the table has non-clustered index on the data date field
need your help
thanks,
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I'm a web developer who writes transact-SQL to make my web applications run properly. I'm not real strong in other areas of SQL. Let me explain our set-up and then I'll explain what I want to do:
We have an ecommerce web site and all sales are saved in a SQL Server 2008 R2 database at our hosting company. We also have a local Windows 2012 network that has SQL Server 2014 Express installed.
Here is what I want to do:
I want to copy sales rows from the SQL Server 2008 database at our hosting company and save them in the SQL Server 2014 Express database on our local Windows 2012 server. I'd like to automate this if possible so that it happens each night perhaps. I know there is a way to schedule SQL jobs but I've never actually done this. I also would need to know how to attach to our hosting company DB as well as our local network DB.
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Greetings,
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Can someone please tell me the correct task to use for this and the connection type I need for both the source and destination?
Thanks,
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Jun 3, 2001
Copy objects and data between SQL Server databases
"
Display the Select Objects to Transfer dialog box, where you can specify both objects and data to copy, if both the data source and destination are Microsoft® SQL Server™ databases. The objects you can transfer include tables, views, stored procedures, defaults, rules, constraints, user-defined data types, logins, users, roles, and indexes. You can transfer objects only between multiple instances of SQL Server version 7.0, from an instance of SQL Server 7.0 to an instance of SQL Server 2000, and between multiple instances of SQL Server 2000.
"
can I apply "Copy objects and data between SQL Server databases"
to run in two different sqlserver 2000 ( not an instance ) . what I mean is I have two different sql servers located in two different locations( I am not using an instance installation) can I still run the copy and get an identical database in both servers.
Q2. if I have two sql server 2000 with different collations (one is binary and the other is the default) will I be able to run the copy wizard and still have an identical copy of sql server in both servers.
I personally tried to run the copy wizard and IT NEVER WORKED FOR ME and I really do not know the reason.
Thanks for your input.
ali
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Jun 18, 2007
I am an authenticated user of a remote data base
I can log in and add tables and even I can back up the database .
Good.
But I want to get a copy of the database to my local computer
Is there any way to do this?
_sujithsql_
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Mar 29, 2007
Ok, here is my dilemma
I have an application that has many sites. Each site has it's own database. The databases have common tables (ie the name and fields are the same) What I want to be able to do is when creating a new database, I want to be able to copy certain common table data from one database to another. I have run into an error because the table have an IDENTITY so this is not working
INSERT INTO Containers SELECT * FROM ADMS2_Indian_Point.dbo.Containers
I also tried
USE ADMS2_RSCS
GO
SET IDENTITY_INSERT Containers ON
GO
INSERT INTO Containers SELECT * FROM ADMS2_Indian_Point.dbo.Containers
GO
SET IDENTITY_INSERT Containers OFF
GO
I got an error saying that I need to have a column list. I am trying to use this for any tables, so my question is this..
Is there any way to get around using a column list or is there a way to dynamically create the column list?
Or, Is there a better way that I should be doing this?
Please keep in mind I am not a dba and everything I have learned about SQL is from my good pal Google :)
Thanks for any help
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1. SQL server 2000 DTS packages: As I am trying to copy the data from the source table(server1) into a destination table which is a similar table in server2, if I use dts first I want to take the complete snapshot and then on I only want to copy the new transactions or updated transactions, please let me know how I can do this.
2. Does trigger affect the performance as the server1(source table) is a busy server.
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Hi there,
Can u please tell me how to copy data from table A(database A) to table B(databaseB) which table A contain 10 fields but table B consist of 11 fields. I have to insert current date and time into another field in Table B (which has extra field compare to tableA) automatically every hour or so.
Please help.
Thanx
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1. connect from the studio on server C to server A
2. run the following script on server A: SELECT * FROM A.myTable FOR XML PATH('ROOT')
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4. connect from the studio on server C to server B
5. to write something like
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SET @xmlData = pasting here my result from item 3 above
6. INSERT INTO
SELECT
ref.value .....
FROM @xmlData.nodes('/myElemnet/ROOT')
xmlData( ref );
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Thanks a lot!
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But something a Foreign Key from ParentID references (Id) with the delete-Rule on cascade seems not to be possible, because of multiple cascade Paths or cycles. Do i have to add some xtra constarins:
Not Possible:
create Table tree (
Id varchar Not null,
ParentId varchar Not null,
Constraint pk1 Primary Key (Id),
Constraint fk1 Foreign Key (ParentId) references tree(Id)
On Update Cascade
On delete CAscade
)
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