What is a good way to transfer a table from one SQL Server instance to another server with an available FTP?
Use 'Generate Scripts' to script table creation and use the SSMS Tools' 'Generate Insert Statement' feature to create a script to populate the table. Simple, ad completely disconnected.
And alternative would be to backup the DB, restore it to a parallel DB on the new server, and copy from DB to DB (via SELECT INTO)
Have you tried using a linked server from server A to server B?
Here's one way (using TASKS via SSMS): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms142159.aspx
Here's another way (using SSIS): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc511477.aspx
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I want to transfer multiple tables and their data from one SQL Server to another SQL Server on the local network automatically every 1 hour.
There is a tool built-in tool in SSMS to do this.
In SSMS, right click on the database name. Select Data > Import on the destination database. You will be prompted to provide connection information for the source database. This is internally using SSIS integration tool.
Create a SSIS Package USE Type two SCD if you want insert and
updates. you can use staging table from source to
destination is a good practice and it is industry standard. if you
are not having staging environment. You can use temp tables within
ssis package to achieve the same.
Schedule a job and run that ssis package in the job for every half an hour
For SQL Server 2008 is there an out of the box way to backup a singe table? On other database I've seen straightforward backup and restore commands for a single table but have not found it on SQL Server.
I am looking for commands like backup table and restore table which I've come across for other databases.
Use powershell to copy the table from one server/database to another.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/05/06/use-powershell-to-copy-a-table-between-two-sql-server-instances.aspx
This uses the sql client library and bulk copy. As long as you have credentials, this can be executed anywhere as long as powershell is installed!
There is one option using SSMS.
Check this out.
I'm trying to save the values of several columns of one table to another table on a different server. I am using SQL Server. I would like to do this without running external programs that query from this database and insert the results into the new database. Is there any way to do this from within the SQL Server Management Studio?
This is a recurring event that occurs every hour. I have tried scheduling maintenance tasks that execute custom T-SQL scripts but I'm having trouble getting the connection to the remote server.
Any help would be appreciated.
If you can set up the remote server as a linked server you should be able to configure the SQL Server Agent to execute jobs that contain queries that access tables on both the local and linked server. Remember that you might have to configure the access rights for the account used to run SQL Server Agent so that it has permissions to read/write tables on both servers.
This practice might not be without issues though as this article discusses.
You can use a 4 part name like;
INSERT [InstanceName].[DatabaseName].[SchemaName].[TableName]
SELECT * FROM [SourceInstanceName].[SourceDatabaseName].[SourceSchemaName].[SourceTableName]
But first you will have to set the remote server as a linked server as so;
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa560998.aspx
I have a bunch of data in MS Access. I want to create INSERT statements from the data with the purpose of running them in SQL Server. The table structure between Access and SQL Server is the same. I don't have the option of doing an export/import because I don't have direct access to the SQL Server. It is a web host's server and they only give you a stupid control panel to run scripts. Unfortunately I can't use SQL Server Management Studio against it, or any other tools.
What is the easiest way to generate SQL Server compatible INSERT statements from MS Access data?
Install a copy of SQL Server (perhaps Express) on a machine (your dev machine, a VM, whathaveyou). Ensure your .mdb can be read by this machine.
Use SQL Server to create a Linked Server to your Access database.
DTS/SSIS tables from Access to your local SQL Server.
Export scripts + data from your local SQL Server. Right click your database, select Tasks-> Generate scripts.
choose to script data.
This will ensure that your create statements are followed by the data.
Consider using a mix of Access and Excel.
View your Access table in datasheet view.
Select all rows
Paste into Excel
Insert a new column before Column A.
Build your INSERT statement in this cell.
Insert a comma between each column (insert new column) and single quotes as needed
Insert an end parenthesis
Drag the INSERT statement, commas, and end parentheses downward, copying their values for each row in your table.
ensure you set SET IDENTITY_INSERT MyTable ON before executing that script.
It turns out I found a way that was easier than either of the suggested answers. I went to SQL Server Management Studio and right-clicked on the database, chose Import, and went through the wizard to import from an MS Access datasource. It was fairly painless and straightforward. Then I generated scripts as p. campbell suggested.
I need to copy some records from our SQLServer 2005 test server to our live server. It's a flat lookup table, so no foreign keys or other referential integrity to worry about.
I could key-in the records again on the live server, but this is tiresome. I could export the test server records and table data in its entirety into an SQL script and run that, but I don't want to overwrite the records present on the live system, only add to them.
How can I select just the records I want and get them transferred or otherwise into the live server? We don't have Sharepoint, which I understand would allow me to copy them directly between the two instances.
If your production SQL server and test SQL server can talk, you could just do in with a SQL insert statement.
first run the following on your test server:
Execute sp_addlinkedserver PRODUCTION_SERVER_NAME
Then just create the insert statement:
INSERT INTO [PRODUCTION_SERVER_NAME].DATABASE_NAME.dbo.TABLE_NAME (Names_of_Columns_to_be_inserted)
SELECT Names_of_Columns_to_be_inserted
FROM TABLE_NAME
I use SQL Server Management Studio and do an Export Task by right-clicking the database and going to Task>Export. I think it works across servers as well as databases but I'm not sure.
An SSIS package would be best suited to do the transfer, it would take literally seconds to setup!
I would just script to sql and run on the other server for quick and dirty transferring. If this is something that you will be doing often and you need to set up a mechanism, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) which is similar to the older Data Transformation Services (DTS) are designed for this sort of thing. You develop the solution in a mini-Visual Studio environment and can build very complex solutions for moving and transforming data.