How I Imported My SQL Database Entities Into My SQL Compact Database

Hello:

I am still working on my project, but figured I would share my findings with the community, on how I imported my SQL Server database tables into a new SQL Compact Edition database. Unfortunately, I haven't figured a workaround to the IDENTITY_INSERT issue, but other than that, I will proceed.

1) I downloaded and played with the tool presented in the article "Generate SQL Insert statements for your SQL Server 2000 Database" I made the following modifications . (my modification can be found here)
a) Disable scripting dependencies
b) Add a filter for objects to script
c) Prompt for each table from which to export data

2) From the scripts output by this tool, I had to (which I may integrate into the tool later... who knows)
a) Remove 'On Primary' statements after the create table statements.
b) Remove date defaults.
c) Most other SQL generated by the tool seemed to work.

3) Execute each 'Create Table' statement individually.

4) For the Data Import, I had to add semi-colons to the end of each Insert Line.

5) I Have found no workaround for the IDENTITY_INSERT issue. If anyone has a good idea, I would love to hear it. In my case, I was importing the DotNetNuke core store module tables populated with about 2500 products and 20+ categories consisting of a simple categories table and products table. I imported the categories table into a fresh MS Access database file, and then ran the update query against the attached products table in the original SQL Database, then regenerated the insert statements, and imported the data generating fresh product ID's. This database will only be read only, so it didn't matter about maintaining the Product ID's, just the relationship between the products and categories.

Separately, I found a great blog article on how to embed a SQL script as a resource for your application and run it on your applications first run, so my steps above would provide a quick foundation for generating that sql script.