I have installed SQL Server Management Studio Express and trying to import my access tables to SQL database. In the blogs I have read I can do it from Tasks>>>>Import Data BUt my Tasks menu does not contain any Import Data. It only contains
Detach, Shrink, Backup, Restore, Generate Scripts.
What is the problem with my Server Management Studio Express
What shall I do to import data?
Thanks
Furqan
I've never used the Express version, so I may not be able to help you. However, if you're not seeing the Import option from the tasks menu, per this site, you can either
Export from MS Access
Download the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=65111
Run "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\DTS\Binn\DTSWizard.exe"
NOTE: As a side note, the forum referenced above was for SQL Express 2005 (hence the path containing version 90)
If you create a new blank database and then right click on the database you should have "Tasks" > Import Data.
According to this thread, SQL Server Management Studio Express 2005 does not offer the Import/Export option at all, but Microsoft added that feature in the 2008 version.
You can use sql management studio for this purpose install over on your current express version and you can import export then.
Related
I have an SQL Azure database and connect to it in SQL Server Management Studio. I do Export Data Tier Application and then Import Data Tier Application for the .bacpac file to get it into my localdb. Or I use Tasks - Deploy Database.
Either way, it worked up until recently and now I get an error
Online index operations can only be performed in Enterprise edition of SQL Server
I am using SQL Server Management Studio versions below (from Help - About). Any ideas?
SQL Server Management Studio 15.0.18369.0
SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) 16.100.46041.41
Microsoft Analysis Services Client Tools 15.0.19342.0
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 10.0.19041.1
Microsoft MSXML 3.0 6.0
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.30319.42000
Operating System 10.0.19041
Among bug fixes in SSMS 18.9:
Fixed in issue where importing a bacpac into SQL Express may fail. See SQL Server user feedback.
This issue with SSMS 18.8 had been acknowledge by the product team, but was fixed:
I apologize for the inconvenience of this issue, we are working to include a fix in the next release of SSMS. In the meantime, installing SSMS 18.7.1 (https://learn.microsoft.com/sql/ssms/release-notes-ssms?view=sql-server-ver15#1871) will allow you to complete the bacpac import operations on SQL Server Express.
If instead of using localdb you can upgrade to or use SQL Server 2019 Developer Edition, then you won't have any issues. Developer Edition is free and has the same features as Enterprise Edition. You can download Developer Edition from here and then update it with the latest cumulative update from here, after that try to import the bacpac to the Developer Edition instance.
I just ran into this same exact problem again today. I exported our database from Azure into a BACPAC and was having trouble with SSMS loading it into SQL Express.
Just by pure luck, I found SSMS 18.9 was released today and appears to have fixed the issue in my case.
Ok, so I have a .sql file that i exported from MySQL Workbench and now I want to import it into Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition for linux, and I'm not sure how I should go about doing that, any suggestions?
If you export the data into csv or some other delimited format, I think you will be more successful.
If able to connect to your db in Linux with version of SQL Server Management Studio, there is an option - Right click on your DB in SSMS, Select Tasks -> Tasks -> Import Flat File. I am using SQL Server Management Studio 15.0.18330.0. I hope this helps.
If your Linux SQL database has sight of your MySQL database and you have an ODBC driver loaded for my SQL (on Linux), there may be another, importing it directly from MySQL, without going through an intermediary step.
I ran into a issue about Import/Export on SQL Server.
I have a database on SQL Server 2008 R2 instance running on my laptop.
I want to attach it on a SQL Server Express 2008 instance running on Windows 2003 server.
Due there is no management studio on my server Is it possible to export database from SQL Server 2008 R2 to SQL Express 2008 instance ?
Depend on this answer I think its possible.
But when I want to use Import Export tool on destination setting I should choose destination configuration.
How can I get around this?
I want to know Is it possible to move R2 schema data to SQL Server 2008 express using Import / Export tool ?
If yes I think it generate script for us and I don't have management studio on server. Is it possible to execute generated script on a management studio running on my system and then move MDF file to server ?
P S : Should I ask this question on DBA ?
You already asked this question on dba.stackexchange.com:
https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/5923/attach-sql-server-2008-r2-on-sql-server-express-2008/
The answer hasn't changed. You can't attach/restore a 2008 R2 database to a 2008 instance. You either need to upgrade the 2008 instance to 2008 R2, or you need to move the schema and data in another way. For example, the import/export wizard should help with this (if it's not working, you need to explain what that means), as will 3rd party tools - see some options here.
P S : Should I ask this question on DBA ?
Yes.
But, to answer your question, you can't restore from 2008R2 to 2008. I know the naming convention used is, at best, completely confusing, the reality is that they are 2 separate versions just like 2005 and 2008, and are unable to restore to previous versions.
The question is probably extremely easy to resolve, but I need to resolve it because I need to carry on with my project. I am using SQL Server Express 2008 at home, and I've been working on an ASP.NET MVC app that stores my DB in an mdf file in the project's folder. The problem is that the SQL Server in the Uni labs is SQL Server 2005, and when I try to open the mdf file with the VS Server Explorer,It says that the version of the mdf file is more than the server can accept.
The only option that comes to my mind is exporting the DB as an sql file, just like I've done it thousand times with phpmyadmin. the thing is that the SQL Management Studio Express is not the most usable tool in the world, and for some strange reason all the articles I could find in Google were irrelevant. Please, help.
It is not possible to attach database created on SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2005. The other direction is possible.
Your only option is to script the database and data and run the scripts on SQL 2005. If you have used any of new features of the SQL Server 2008, you will have to rewrite the scripts.
I haven't used it much, but right click on database -> Tasks... -> Generate Scripts... / Export Data... / Import Data... should do the job right.
Google "Database Publishing Wizard", it's a tool from Microsoft to script an entire database, both schema and data.
you can script your db and its data. then run it on the target server to create a new db that is compatible with 2005 version.
Tools like Red-Gate SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can compare a live database to e.g. a backup file, so you could compare your SQL Server 2005 database against the SQL Server 2008 Express backup file, and move data that way.
Or you could possibly generate INSERT statements for your tables that have changed data using a tool like this one here or this one here. These can generate INSERT scripts for your tables, which you can take along and run on your SQL Server 2005 target system.
I'm trying some of the ASP.NET MVC tutorials and one of them has the following steps:
Right-click on the "App_Data" folder, and choose "Add New item"
Choose "SQL Server Database" under the "Data" category.
However, once I do that, I get the following message from Visual Studio:
Connections to SQL Server files (*.mdf) require SQL Server Express 2005 to function proprely. Please verify the installation of the component or download from the URL...
The thing is that I have SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition installed, and I would really rather not install any Express versions (2005 or 2008) if I don't have to. Is there a work-around for this issue?
I ran into this problem too on 64-bit Windows 7 (using 64-bit SQL Server Express 2008).
There are two methods of fixing this problem referenced in the Microsoft Support Knowledge Base article:
1. Workaround
To work around this problem, uninstall
the 64-bit version of SQL Server
Express 2008, and then install the
32-bit version of SQL Server Express
2008.
If you don't want to do the uninstall/install, then try the Hotfix method below.
2. Hotfix
A supported hotfix is now available
from Microsoft. However, it is
intended to correct only the problem
that this article describes. Apply it
only to systems that are experiencing
this specific problem.
Although the article itself doesn't include a link to the hotfix, you can get it here:
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=957944
To illuminate masfenix's reply, SQL Express supports one feature that is not supported by full-blown SQL Server: a "user instance" database. With SQL Express installed and an mdf file in your App_Data folder, the application will dynamically attach and detach it as needed. For hobbyist or small business sites, this may be perfect. If you're running SQL elsewhere in the enterprise, you probably don't want to go this route and therefore the feature isn't useful to you.
Actually SQL express is a whole different database engine then SQL Server 2005. So yes if you want to use mdf files you'd need SQL Express.
I want to point out that I have both Developer edition and Express edition installed. And I still run into the same error. I think Express edition must be installed as a single instance.
I have the same problem but I've sql 2008 express installed.
any way to make it work with sql 2008 express so I don't have to install the 4th sql instance on my machine??
I already have sql 2005, sql 2008, sql 2008 express
what the F... :)