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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Copy one database to another database

There are several ways to do this, below are two options:

Option 1
- Right click on the database you want to copy
- Choose 'Tasks' > 'Generate scripts'
- 'Select specific database objects'
- Check 'Tables'
- Mark 'Save to new query window'
- Click 'Advanced'
- Set 'Types of data to script' to 'Schema and data'
- Next, Next



You can now run the generated query on the new database.

Option 2
- Right click on the database you want to copy
- 'Tasks' > 'Export Data'
- Next, Next 

- Choose the database to copy the tables to
- Mark 'Copy data from one or more tables or views'
- Choose the tables you want to copy
- Finish

2 comments:

  1. Hi Satish,
    isnot this option very limited ? if database has any cyclic relationships it just errors and does not script the database!
    am currently working on combining two client databases (same schema and different data) ,any advise on how to plan this ? Thanks.

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  2. will you answer me how can i copy a master database data and update the data into slave database.

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