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richnfamous
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 Posted - 2014-01-07 : 15:28:13
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| sorry if this has been covered elsewhere...i'm in the process of migrating two sites from shared servers to a decidated Win 2008 R2 which has SQL Express on itthe problem is that replication isn't available and i don't have access on the (current) shared server which will allow me to do a backup/restore to the new one. it's not a huge amount of data - 20-30 megs at the mosti have one db which was backed up a few days ago which needs to be synched with the current one, so we can take it offline, and another which i need to import completelywhat would be the best way of going about a) synching the db that's been backed up and b) importing the second db completely? |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
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Posted - 2014-01-07 : 15:45:46
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| If it's just 20-30MB, why not just do truncate/delete and then insert? It should be very fast for that amount of data. You could use a linked server for the insert.Or truncate/delete plus bcp out/in.Tara KizerSQL Server MVP since 2007http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/ |
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richnfamous
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Posted - 2014-01-07 : 16:18:04
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| thanks - i'll see if that's a viable option |
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importing/synching without replication