Copy Tables Between Databases Using Variables
Jul 20, 2005
I am trying to find the best way to copy specific tables from one database
to another when the source and target database names are not always the
same. Can you use variables to specify (or prompt the user) to provide
source and target databases? The target database will exist with the the
same tables as the source. The tables to copy will always be the same.
Example:
UserA wants to copy 10 tables from Data1 to Data2
UserB wants to copy 10 tables from Data4 to Data5
I'm sure a script can do this in Query Analyzer but is there a more user
friendly method when the user has ony standard SQL tools?
Thanks in advance.
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Jan 23, 2012
I am attempting to use the copy wizard to copy databases from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 R2 w/ FP1.
The copy fails with a login failure to SQL Server 2005. I have a user id & password under Windows for both servers. I have a user id and password under SQL security with the called for admin security rights.
The 2005 server has two instances, 20 databases, two dozen maintenance plans, and over a hundred users. I really would like to use the utility so I don't have to recreate everything manually.
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Hi,
I have some set of variables that I want to add in all my packages. Like other components, is there any way to copy & paste the variables from one package to another package?
Thx.
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What is the best way?
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May 30, 2006
Hi,
Maybe a stupid question, but I'm trying to copy some databases from one
server to another. The copy databases wizard says the job is successful
and I can see that the job has been done on the remote server. But the
copied databases are not there. What do I do?
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Dec 26, 2007
Why isn't there some documentation on how to do this. This should be really simple and it has taken me 2 weeks and I still haven't gotten an answer. Please Help Does anyone know the answner or some place where there is some documentation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I get the following error when I try to substitute the strings in the databasedetails collection with variables:
Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. StackTrace: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Tasks.TransferObjectsTask.TransferObjectsTask.CheckLocalandDestinationStatus(Database srcDatabase, DatabaseInfo dbDetail) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Tasks.TransferObjectsTask.TransferObjectsTask.TransferDatabasesUsingSpAttachDetach()
I created the following variables:
strDestinationDB = AirCL2Exp_new3
strDestinationDBPath = C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.2MSSQLDATAAirCL2Exp_new3_Data.mdf
strDestinationLGPath = C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.2MSSQLDATAAirCL2Exp_new3_Data.ldf
strSourceDB = AirCL2Exp
strSourceDBPath = C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.2MSSQLDataDataNewAirCL2Exp_Data.mdf
strSourceLGPath = C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.2MSSQLDataDataNewAirCL2Exp_Log.ldf
I then assigned those variable to DatabaseDetails Collection:
DatabaseName = @strSourceDB
DestinationDatabaseName = @strDestinationDB
Inaddtion I also assigned the following to the two DatabaseFiles Collection:
for 0:
DatabaseFileSize = 0
DestinationFilePath = @strDestinationDBPath
FileType = DatabaseFile
SourceFilePath = @strSourceDBPath
SourceSharePath = @strSourceDBPath
for 1:
DatabaseFileSize = 0
DestinationFilePath = @strDestinationLGPath
FileType = LogFile
SourceFilePath = @strSourceLGPath
SourceSharePath = @strSourceLGPath
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Jun 17, 2002
Hi,
I am preparing to move from sql7 to sql2000 and and considering the copy database wizard to move the databases. The thing that I am concerned with is this passage from BOL
"A database with the identical name on both source and destination servers cannot be moved or copied"
This to me says that the database name cannot be the same on source and destination servers. Yet, you would want the database name to be the same from an application point of view (developers get real nasty when you change database information on them).
Does this mean I cannot use the copy database wizard? Must I use sp_attatch_db?
Thanks in advance
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I am trying to copy information from one Database to another. Each of the databases reside on a different server.
My question is
1. How can I use the DSN name in a stored procedure?
2. Do I need to use dynamic SQL?
3. Any other ideas of how to implement this?
Thanks
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May 16, 2007
Hi All,
I am new to sql server and the database concepts and just started learning.
I want to copy a database and local package from a old sql server to a new server.
can anybody guide me with the steps? I am very new to this field so if you could give me detailed steps
i would very much appreciate it.
thanks in advance,
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Aug 14, 2007
Could anyone possibly help me out with an issue I am having...
I need to copy all my SQL2005 databases from Server1 to Server2. How can I, using SSIS, copy all the databases and not just 1 specific one (database transfer task)???
My actual task is much deeper than this, but this is the main problem I seem to be encountering and I cannot find this anywhere on the web...
Over and above the what I have mentioned, is there a way to also specify a name of the target DB the copy will go through to?
e.g. Server 1 has 3 instances, each one with a different copy of the same DB.
I would like to copy all 3 copies to Server 2 running 1 SQL instance, but to target DB's like DB_dev, DB_prod and DB_test.
The latter section is not so crucial at the moment, but the first part is really an issues I am struggling with at the moment...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanking You in advance!!!!!
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Oct 17, 2006
Hello and thanks in advance for help,
I have configured several jobs in the SQL Server Agent which do a copy of databases from a cluster of SQL 2005 to another SQL 2005 server. I did these from the "Copy Dabatase Wizard". When I run these it works fine with "small" databases but with the two bigger ones I get the following error after 10 minutes since execution started:
Event Name: OnError
Message: An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch.
StackTrace: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ServerConnection.ExecuteWithResults(String sqlCommand)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ServerConnection.ExecuteWithResults(StringCollection sqlCommands)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Tasks.TransferObjectsTask.TransferObjectsTask.TransferDatabasesUsingSMOTransfer()
InnerException-->Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.
StackTrace: at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj)
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParserStateObject.ReadSniError(TdsParserStateObject stateObj, UInt32 error)
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParserStateObject.ReadSni(DbAsyncResult asyncResult, TdsParserStateObject stateObj)
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParserStateObject.ReadPacket(Int32 bytesExpected)
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParserStateObject.ReadBuffer()
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParserStateObject.ReadByte()
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.ConsumeMetaData()
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData()
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior, String method)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteDbDataReader(CommandBehavior behavior)
at System.Data.Common.DbCommand.System.Data.IDbCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior)
at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.FillInternal(DataSet dataset, DataTable[] datatables, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, String srcTable, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior)
at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataSet dataSet, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, String srcTable, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior)
at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataSet dataSet)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ServerConnection.ExecuteWithResults(String sqlCommand)
Operator: DOMAINuser
Source Name: CLUSTERSERVER_BACKUPSERVER_Transfer Objects Task
Source ID: {3CF47485-1035-40E7-86C4-D679E253D38D}
Execution ID: {A10C4E99-0B35-416C-A560-81DB2C2D92C4}
Start Time: 11/10/2006 17:45:11
End Time: 11/10/2006 17:45:11
Data Code: 0
Any idea about the solution?
Regards,
Jorge
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Please help! :)
Thanks,
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Hi,
I have a database on sqlserver 2000 which contains some tables which receive Create/Read/Update statements from applications, and +-5 tables which contain a sort of read-only data: the applications are only reading from these tables.
Sometimes these 5 tables need to be updated with new data. Currently I am doing this as follows:
Execute a long-running operation (e.g. 1 week), which will add new data, against a Test-database (which is a restore from a backup of the original database)
Some people do some checks to see if the new data in the Test-database is correct
If (2) is OK, the only thing which needs to be done is copying the data of the 5 tables in testdatabase to the 5 tables of the production-database.For (3), I currently use a DTS-package which consists of a "Copy SQL Server Objects"-task. This task is configured to copy the 5 tables (objects) from testdatabase to productiondatabase. The data in these 5 tables is around 20GB, and this task takes a lot of time compared to a backup/restore of the same size of data. I already tried to speed it up by creating different filegroups and wanted to restore only 1 filegroup but you can read here that making a filegroup backup on a testdatabase and trying to restore it on a production database won't work. Is there some other way to speed this up? Is my current way of working good practice?
Thx!
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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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Since this will be weekly, the SAN team performed the copy again and now none of the databases can communicate with the newly copied files. NTFS permissions need to be set again. I'm getting (Operating System error 21: the device is not ready). Is there something that I'm missing in this process how the vendor BCV clones the data and SQL communicates with the copied files as I was thinking it would be more automated process?
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declare @Temp table
or
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Hi all,
I had a problem in a stored proc when I was using table variables in SQL Server 2005. I fixed the problem by changing them to temporary tables. It works now but I really want to understand why I had to do what I did. Here's the situation:
Had a stored proc that cached quite a bit of data (100-200k records with 7 columns) into a table variable. Then, it looped through this and returned a result set. The table this procedure was querying, then caching, was highly transactional. After about 2 or 3 users were hitting the same area at once, the procedure locked. If there were no locks, it executed very fast. However, it usually timed out (due to this locking).
After researching, I see that your usually better off sticking with temp tables for large amounts of data - but the primary explanation I hear for this is that you can index it. However, it also seems that the temp table will perform read-locking as its an actual physical table, whereas the table variable will not. Therefore, because there's no locking and its entirely in memory, the table variable is often the better choice. This is confusing me though because the problem I was experiencing was some sort of locking - which I thought would have been less likely with table variables.
The only other thought I had is that the table variables (if there were several of them existing at once due to several users executing the same procedure), were causing some kind of memory limit to be hit, making the database wait until some more memory became available.
Sorry for the long post, but I'd really like to know if anyone else has had these issues and what the cause might be.
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Hello all
I have a table named Configuration and I want to make a copy of this table.
I already have the table with the same structure named Configuration1. All I want to do is copy data from Configuration to Configuration1
How do I do it? I tried various queries:
SELECT *
INTO configuration1
FROM configuration
GO
Results:
(395 row(s) affected) but configuration1 is empty.
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Create configuration1 like configuration
Results:
Error near like
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Thanks much guys/girls....
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Hi
I have a DB2 database server.It has 2000+ tables...And I have a MS SQL database server.It has got the same tables.With same schema...
I want to take all of that tables datas to MS Sql database's tables....
I try to use DTS Import Data Wİzard but it gace an erro which is Unknown Error!!!
Now;
I try to make a DTS which is capable with doing this mission...
I want to create one DTC package and the source table and destination table names will be changed dynamically...Probably i should use ActiveX Task or Dynamic PropertTask...
Despite i have searched from net very much i couldnt find any helpfull article or sample for 3 days...I have also checked this one;
http://www.sqldts.com/default.aspx?246
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I really wish thatsomebody can help me...
Thank u all
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Hi everyone!
I want to copy from DB certain tables to an other DB. How can I do that with SQL Server 2005. I would prefer an SQL string solution instead of buttonclicking solution.
Thanks a lot and greetings from Vienna, Austria
landau
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