Why can I not see an option for copying database objects when I right click > tasks on my database?
MS Sql Server Express doesn't come with SSIS which is what you will need to import/export objects out of your database.
You can also manually script this process. One way is to use BCP (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162802.aspx)
Have a look at Red Gate SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare.
You can download the trial and use them to build a script that will dump your objects to a .sql file.
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I need to join SQL Server data with some data from Essbase cube. Result will be in SQL Server. Is it possible to create linked essbase cubu in SQL Server 2014 to query data? Or any other way how to get data physically from essbase to SQL Server not using export files? Something like direct connect.
Thanks,
There aren't any native ways to implement what your want. Setting this up will typically require some sort of automation to extract the data in the cube to a CSV file, then loading that data using SSIS or your preferred ETL tool. The automation to extract data will frequently be a combination of batch file, MaxL and report script or a calc script with a data export command.
Can SQL Server or db2 do entire database exports like oracle (using exp command)?
I've searched the internets and found bcp for SQL Server. But it seems I would have to iterate over all the tables to get what I want.
For db2 it looks to be roughly the same. Is there something I'm missing? Anyone have any suggestions and/or any opinions? Thanks ahead of time.
This is for SQL SERVER
Backup & Restore
To take an entire database with SQL Server, you can do a BACKUP and RESTORE
BACKUP: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186865.aspx
RESTORE: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186858.aspx
Export and Import
You can right click a database in SQL Server Management Studio, and under TASKS, click on EXPORT DATA. Follow the Wizard to choose the objects you want to export and put them into the appropriate location.
Custom SSIS for Raw format
Build a SSIS package that will read data from source table and put it into a RAW file on disk for later use. Raw files holds the structure of the table and the data.
DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows has a utility called db2move, which generates the DDL to rebuild the database from scratch, and iterates through all the tables to dump their contents to flatfiles via the EXPORT command.
there are two databases to compare,but I can't connect one database directly.
so I want to compare the schema,then get a script to update one database.
VS2010 can compare two databases by dbschema file.
How can I get a dbschema file of an existing sql 2005/2008 database, Notes:the machine which has the database doesn't install vs2010.
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Take a look at the VSDBCMD.exe that allows you to generate .dbschema files.
My primary reason for this is to keep track of database schema changes for my application. In SQL Server Management Studio I am able to generate a create script which creates the database but it doesn't contain any test data. Ideally when the script is run it should DROP the existing database (assuming it already exists) and then recreating it using this new script containing schema changes and test data from my development machine.
So how can I generate a script that will create a database with all the tables, stored procs, triggers, views, test data, etc?
I've tried using the import/export functionality but that's no good because it doesn't seem to copy over stored procedures. Plus it would be nice to have a script so I can track changes to the schema using mercurial.
I am using SQL Server Express 2008 R2 along with SQL Server Management Studio.
You didn't mention which version of SQL Server, but in SQL 2008 this is very easy
SQL 2008
Expand Databases
Right Click Database
Choose Tasks > Generate Scripts
Generate and
Publish Dialog will open Choose your
objects (i.e. Tables, procs, etc)
Click Next On the Set Scripting
Options choose Advanced Options Under
General choose SCRIPT DROP AND
CREATE - SCRIPT DROP AND CREATE
Types of Data To Script - Schema and
Data Close Advanced Window Choose to
save to file.
I wrote an open source command line utility named SchemaZen that does this. It's much faster than scripting from management studio and it's output is more version control friendly. It supports scripting both schema and data.
To generate scripts run:
schemazen.exe script --server localhost --database db --scriptDir c:\somedir
Then to recreate the database from scripts run:
schemazen.exe create --server localhost --database db --scriptDir c:\somedir
Try Microsoft SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard. This is a powerful flexible tool for scripting schema / data rom SQL Server.
Personally I use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Database Project with a Source Control Repository (SVN) to track changes to the schema.
Watch out for difference in database collation. If you develop on a database with a case insensitive collation and try and run the SSMS generated scripts against as database with a case sensitive collation then errors in case will break the scripts.
Usually i make backups fom a database before start a new development on it.
the best way is restore the backup when needed, i don't know how to get it by the script way!
I need to copy the contents (tables, views, procs, DATA, etc.) of a SQL Server database and copy it to another SQL Server database. I need to do this entirely in a script as I am not able to carry over files to the destination web server. Using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, how can I accomplish this?
Note: The database I am copying to will have the same name and be completely empty.
You can script the database schema and data using SSMS
Right click on the database. Choose tasks....then choose generate sql scripts.
Specify all objects. Then in the options menu choose at the bottom to generate scripts for data.
Below are some links that will be helpful
http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/08/21/sql-server-2005-create-script-to-copy-database-schema-and-all-the-objects-stored-procedure-functions-triggers-tables-views-constraints-and-all-other-database-objects/
http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/11/16/sql-server-2005-generate-script-with-data-from-database-database-publishing-wizard/
You can backup the database and restore to any instance you'd like. Since I don't like posting the "how to" when I learned it someplace else originally - here's the MSDN describing the process.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187048.aspx
It is how we do things in our production environment. We back up and restore to our other instances.
The easiest way would be to restore from a backup, but since you can't copy files to the file system, the Copy database wizard will do this.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188664.aspx