I have a database on a school server that I have limited access to, so I cannot import a data backup like I would like to. I only need one table, and I am wondering if there is a way to create a file from Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio to create the table then insert all the data (talking about 23,000 rows, so quite a bit to move otherwise).
I have the database backup imported into a schema on my copy of Microsoft MySQL Server, just not on the school server that I would like to be using.
If anyone has a better way of doing it, I am very open to suggestions.
EDIT: Just so everyone has an idea of what I'm working with on the school side, it is a limited version of phpmyadmin:
Import is limited to sql script files.
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I have some .mdf and .ldf files of database size greater than 10 GB with me.
I want to create a MySQL database using the same.
Is there any provision in MySQL to do it?
Please consider that MySQL and SQL Server 2008 can not be installed on the same machine (or even the same network) in my current setup.
I don't have enterprise edition of SQL Server management studio in our network and will not be able to install it.
Is there any other elegant way to export data from SQL Server 2008 and import it in MySQL?
I don't think it is possible without attaching.
If you find a way how to attach it, you can use some specific migrating tools like this.
Some tools allow to create database specific queries from another solution, that need to be only executed on your side.
The MDF and LDF files belong to Microsoft SQL Server and use Microsoft's own binary format, so you cannot connect these files to other database management systems. The only approach I can think of, is to script out the database code and data from the SQL Server database to a text file (.sql file), and import this file into MySQL.
I have a MySQL database contains large amount of data.
I wanted to write a C# service program to migrate that data into SQL Server database.(Service should work fine with Insert as well as update with out performance issue).
Please help us if there is a way to accomplish this. If there is another way to achieve this is also fine. But, the MySQL client is not present in the local machine. But we could access the database from the server.
You can use the import and export functions in sqlserver, after installing a odbc mysql
I have a asp script that I'm intending to write it with PHP so I have to get its database and use it.
I have the database as .bak file which I understood that it's a backup and I wanna change it to be .sql to import it in phpMyAdmin
I read about this matter in the web but I didn't find an accurate tutorial that goes through the whole process.
They are talking about mssql database but I didn't even reach this step..
Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance :)
Note, all of this applies to MS SQL because .bak is a usually a MS SQL backup.
A .bak can't be converted to SQL directly -- it contains a backup of a database which does not have a clear relationship to SQL.
You could restore the backup and then use SQL Server tools and then use that to make some SQL to recreate the SQL server objects but not the dat.
From SQL Server Management Studio: Datbases item, right click "Restore
Database" then from datbase right click script database.
This won't script the data.
The other option is to use RedGate's excellent tools, which should do everything you want.
http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-toolbelt/
Most probably the .bak file is indeed a binary backup of a Microsoft SQL Server database (which is something completely different than MySQL).
So you will first need to install Microsoft SQL Server (Express) together with the SQL Server Management studio (I think there is a bundled download "SQL Server Express including Tools".
In the Management Studio you can then import the .bak file into a new database. Once the import is finished you can use it to create SQL script out of the database.
I have a database backup in "SQL Server 2008 R2", Can i store this database backup in "SQL 2008 Express" ?
Anyone who have knowledge about SQL-2008 kindly share to me.
No and 'yes'.
A backup (.bak) is not possible, nor is copying .mdf over but you can downgrade.
You could go back to 2005 if you wish to.
I found this information which runs you through it the easy way.
How to Downgrade SQL Server Database
Direct link: http://www.mytechmantra.com/LearnSQLServer/Downgrade_SQL_Server_Database_P1.html
TIP: Use Microsoft OLEDB connector to destination instead of the native client and you should avoid any errors in the transfer
Nothing is impossible, you just have to get creative :)
Install an instance of SQL 2008 R2 on one machine and SQL 2008 on another
Open SQL Server Management Studio R2
Select your source Database
Select Tasks>Generate Scripts.
Select 'Script entire database and all database objects', press 'Next'
Select 'Save to File' and click on the 'Advanced' button
Select 'Script for Server Version' and select the version you want: 200/2005/2008
Select 'Type of data to Script' and select Schema/Data/both
Click 'OK',Next and do it!
Copy the resulting file to the target machine with SQL 2008 [or whatever]
Log onto your SQL Management Studio and open the copied .sql file... be aware that there may be limitations on the file size.
There may also be issues with the order that the .SQL file inserts the data into the target database and if there are FK constraints in place, this could be an issue.... simply re-order the insert lists.
Once the .sql file is organized, parse it [just to sure], and then execute.
Let me clarify a little on these directions.
On the SQL Management Tools be logged into both the old and the new server if possible.This makes these steps even easier.
So, start with the source server, right click on the database and script it. There is one option called ‘Script Data’ that is off by default, we set it to true so the script will include inserts for all of the data. We choose to script the tables, views, indexes and keys (and triggers … not sure if you use any of those). I also did not mess with the users, since that is problematic. It is easier to create the user by hand once on the local SQL server and give them permissions to the dbs.
Then script the DB to a file.
Then select the local SQL server and add the database by hand, then open up the script file and execute it under the new database, all the tables, data, indexes, etc came over just fine. Setup the user permission and you are golden.
NO, you cannot do this.
There is no way, no method, no hack, no workaround, no trick to get a backup from a more recent version of SQL Server back into an older version.
It just doesn't work - it's not supported.
You'll need to synchronize your structure using some kind of SQL diff tool, and possibly your data by exporting and importing, e.g. via the "Data Export / Import" wizard or some custom way.
I need to move a database from SQL Server 2008 to 2005, did the backup format changed or can I import the exported DB in the SQL Server 2005?
The database has tables, views and stored procedures, and it is not using any 2008 specific features.
If it's not possible, would setting the compatibility mode to SQL-Server 2005 (90) help in this case?
Thank you.
Select your database in SSMS, right-click, select Tasks, select Generate Scripts. In the dialog box that pops-up, enable all options, including script data and make sure you select "Script for SQL Server 2005". Execute the generated scripts on your SQL Server 2005 machine. This is workable only for a relatively small database, of course. Else, you'll have to export/import data via bcp.
You won't be able to do this - the backup file contains a version number, and SQL 2005 will refuse to restore the backup. Similarly, you won't be able to detach and reattach the raw data files.
The only option you have, short of upgrading SQL 2005 to 2008, is to export the SQL schema and sprocs using SSMS's ability to generate scripts, and then migrate the data using (for example) BCP or an SSIS package.
There will be third party tools that might be able to help with some of this (for example, a combination of Redgate's SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare). However this is something you will have to research.