I was given a task to write very specific queries from a microsoft sql server database that has over 250 tables and over 250 views. I am using sql server management studios and I am trying to figure out where a field location might exist in a table.
Are there ways to do a quick search of every table or the entire database for certain keywords to help narrow down my searches?
Or must I open every single table/view and try to see every single column in order to solve this issue?
Any help or advice with this would be greatly appreciated.
Try SQL Search from Redgate. Very powerful tool, you can download it for free:
https://www.red-gate.com/dynamic/products/sql-development/sql-search/download
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I'm trying to build a report off the cubes we've built in SSAS, and I've found this documentation for DMV and MDX queries, but I can't find what I want. It can return the dimension names as seen in SSAS, but I want the table name as seen in SQL Server, i.e. if we have a table called billingLocation in the database I want that instead of Billing Location which is how it's seen in SSAS. Is this possible?
As an aside, can you pull fact tables from the same query type? I only see information about pulling dimensions.
Maybe it's too late but you can use LEFT(Column_Name,X) to get some characters. Could be useful
There is not an existed DMV in SSAS to load the dsv name of a measure group or dimension which related Cube schema. I think you have to create a program and connect to SSAS server with AMO.NET to get these information by yourself.
But there is an IDE to get these info and allow you to export to excel, it is not free(30 days free trial): MDXHelper, www.mdx-helper.com.
Hope this help you. Thanks.
First of all: i don't need a full-text-search engine, i don't need full-text-search in my code. I have a database with ~2000 tables, and i need to find the table and column in which certain information is stored, for developing purposes. Is there any quick way (maybe an SQL Server Management Studio trick that i should know of) to do this? I think phpmyadmin provides such a feature for mysql dbs. At the moment i'm seriously thinking of dumping the database to an .sql file and use a text editor to search for the phrases i'm looking for.
Check the INFORMATION_SCHEMA. You can select on it - there is a table containing all the field names etc. and you can then do search on that one.
I don't see a way how to do it without dynamic SQL - get list of all tables and their columns from sys.tables and sys.columns (don't forget to add proper schema if you're using them), construct query that checks for the values you're trying to find and stores table and column name in temporary table, place all queries into (temp) table and finally cursor/loop over that table executing all queries.
PS. your idea of dumping everything into *.sql files should work as well, depends on the volume of data.
I'm copying about 200 tables from Oracle to SQL Server using SSIS. Right now, the basic package template follows this logic:
Get time
Truncate table
Load data and get row count
Record table name, row count, and time to log table.
Currently, I copy and paste the package and change the data flow. Is there a better way to do this? I know SSIS is metadata driven, but doing 200 tables like this is a little ridiculous. And if my boss wants me to change something in the template then I get to do it all over again. Is there a way to loop through tables? I would just use linked servers in SQL Server but since we have SQL Server Enterprise I'm able to use the Attunity connectors and they are much faster.
Any help would be appreciated. It seems like there must be a better way but I'm not familiar enough with SSIS to really know what to ask for.
Want to create a script to export Data and tables and views to a sql script.
I have SQL Server 2008 r2.
So far I've only been able to automatically generate an sqlscript for all tables and views. But the data wasn't included.
OR is there any easier way to export data, tables, views, from one SQL Server to my ISP's SQL server?
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Tea
If for some reason a backup/restore won't work for you, SSMS' Generate Scripts tool includes an advanced scripting option to include data:
Here are some options to think over (prioritised in terms of what I would recommend):-
A simple backup and restore will be the easiest and quickest solution;
Using a data scripting tool (like Red-Gate's Data Compare) could solve your needs;
Use the database comparison as part of Visual Studio.
A SSIS package could be developed to pump data back and forth between the two instances; or
Write your own script using the SET IDENTITY INSERT ON / OFF command for the identity seeded tables
The easiest way to do this is to create a backup, copy the .bak file to the other server, and restore the backup there.
Like #jhewlett said that will be the best way to do it. to answer the question in the comment section. no it shouldn't be a problem. Just make sure that the SQL Server Versions are the same. Had a bit of an issue not to long ago where there were two pc's with different releases of the R2 installed and couldn't restore the backup. Other thing you can also do is to script the entire database with data, but this will not be recommended as it could take a long time to generate the script and for it to finish running on the other computer.
Or you can simply just stop the SQL server instance and copy the database away onto an external hard drive and re-attach it to the other server. just remember to start the instances after doing this step.
I use Navicat Premium for these kind of things in mysql. It generates sql from data, tables, views and anything else. It provides tools to copy or synchronize table from one database on different server or platforms as well. For example I use it so much to transfer my tables from MySQL to a SQLite database, So easy and fast. Otherwise I had to transfer it manually with so much trouble.
very good tool and required for any DB admin or programmer. It support MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite.
To Generate a schema with data follow these steps.
Select database to generate a schema '>' right click '>' Tasks '>' Generate schema '>' click NEXT in popup window '>'
select DB object to generate schema and click NEXT '>'
Go to advance option and scroll down '>'
Find Type of data to script and select one option as you need. '>'
and then Next Next and finish it.
Enjoy it.
If you don't want to port all tables data (for example you need to port just some base data in special tables) scripting options is not useful for you. In this case you'll have two options. First is using some third parties tools such as Red-Gate and Second way is writing the script by yourself. I prefer Second option because except the expensive price of most of them i want to run just little script for little delete, update and inserting purpose. But the important problem is here: maybe the record count is too long to write scripts record by record. I Think the linked Server is good point to solve that. It's enough for describing Just Declare Linked Server as you see in Images and get new script in your source DB and write scripts with access to both source and destination DB. Attached image must be clear.
Create New Linked Server:
Write Destination SQL Server Address:
Fill Login Info:
Now you have Linked Server:
Write script and enjoy:
Hope this help.
I am working on a project which migrates databases from Oracle 10g to SQL Server 2008 using SSMA(SQL SERVER MIGRATION ASSISTANT). I want to know if there is a way to actually compare the data in tables that resides on a table space say 'A' on ORACLE with the corresponding migrated database 'A' on SQL SERVER.
I am not bothered about the data types of various columns right now.If there is a way to map it then it will be great. I am just concerned with the data difference if any that exists.
Let me know if you are aware of any such free tool which does so, or any of you have written a tool which can help me out to do the same.
Thanks !!
You will have to map the PK from the source to the destination and if the colu,ns are the same, fetch a bulk and compare...
Lots of hard work.
Maybe it will be better if you could count rows and verify a statistic group of records.