I have database with multiple tables in Microsoft SQL Server with schema in tables as "xyz".
i am able to copy this database tables along with data from one sql server to another using export and import wizard of SQL server.
I want to do find a way to-
1. Copy only tables with no data.
2. is it possible to covert current database design to a script and then run the same on another server which will create all these tables with empty data ?
Thanks in advances.
Best Regards
Yes, you could do that with Management Studio. Right click your database and then select Tasks -> Generate Scripts.
There are some settings there you should tweak, like if it should generate scripts for indexes and statistics. They are all in plain sight.
An alternative is SQL Server Data Tools. It's relatively new (ex-Data Dude). It's not as straightforward, but better on a long term, for database versioning and for creating migration scripts.
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I am going to create a SaaS application in PHP. In that application the user can create and manage multiple tables to extend functionality. After user finish with the application he can download php code and database.
We will also provide sql import functionality so the user can create schema from (.sql) file.
I search on google but not found any proper solution. You can consider sqlfiddle functionality here.
I have 2 options in my mind but need better solution:
1) For creating multiple database and its tables, use table prefix as a solution
2) Convert mysql to sqlite. At the time of download create export as mysql (.sql) file.
It can have aprox. 10,000 users/databases. Please suggest a solution to provide each user a seperate database if any.
If shared server will not work I will purchase VPS. The main requirement is to provide each user their own database.
I am going to choose sqlite as a choice for db. After doing some benchmark sqlite seems good option for DDL and DML operation.
I will use mysql to sqlite .sql converter: https://github.com/sutara79/convert-mysql-to-sqlite
To improve the speed I follow following stackoverflow post:
Improve INSERT-per-second performance of SQLite?
I am required to create a test environment for some of our .Net applications, and some of these applications use only a small portion of some rather large databases. My idea is to create a 'small' database, which would only hold the tables, stored procedures, views, etc... that are being used by the application.
This will hopefully speed up refresh time on these 'small' databases, however I can't see a simple way of doing this, is there an option to do this easily within SQL server, or via a T-SQL script.
Currently the best method I have is to generate a script from the database, and only select the tables I require with the 'data only' option selected, then run these on the 'small' database to get the data up to date. However this as you can imagine is a lengthy process and I would prefer to use something a bit more automated.
Any suggestions you can provide are very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael Tempest
Database Mirroring Can be a solution for this problem, Only publish the items/Articles you want on your test Database, You can pause and restart mirroring when needed.
SSMS Script as Another wasy way would be go to your SSMS right click the objects you want to copy to test database and Script as Create, do it for all the items you want to move save the scripts in right order i.e (Creating Tables 1st and then relating objects) in one file and run it on the target database.
Since its only you who knows what items to move over to test db I think it will be difficult to find a script which suits your needs.
Some Useful tips for using SCRIPT AS Option
To generate the sql script for the objects:
SQL Server Management Studio > Databases > Database1 > Tasks >
Generate Scripts...
The SQL Server Scripts Wizard will start and
you can choose the objects and settings to export into scripts
By default the scripting of Indexes and Triggers are not
included so make sure to trun these on (and any others that you
are interested in).
To export the data from the tables:
SQL Server Management Studio > Databases > Database1 > Tasks >
Export Data...
Choose the source and destination databases
Select the tables to export •Make sure to check the Identity Insert
checkbox for each table so that new identities are not created.
Then create the new database, run the scripts to create all of the objects, and then import the data.
For Dev database we just keep a structural copy of Production one with some data. Periodically we compare databases with tool that compares and syncs database structure (there are plenty of such tools now - we use redgate's one).
For prod_copy database we just do backup-restore of prod db and then truncate biggest tables and shrink database if needed.
If you want completely automate the procedure you can script both SQL Compare or SQL Data Compare. I am not sure if other SQL tools vendors have such an option.
I currently have a database in MySQL, which I'd like to import in MS Access.
Is it possible to do this while keeping all relationships intact (i.e. without exporting to .csv, or by using ODBC)?
I'm a noob in this area so any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
You need to solve two different problems:
Creating an empty MS Access database with a structure that matches the MySQL database structure.
Extracting the data from MySQL and loading it into MS Access.
This is not easy because different SQL databases offer different structural features, different datatypes, and so on. The more complex your use of MySQL is the more likely you'll run into some show-stopper during the conversion (for instance, Access doesn't support triggers at all). Conversely if you're using MySQL as a simple data store you may find the conversion fairly easy.
To get an MS Access database with the same structure as your MySQL database, your best bet is to find a database definition / diagramming tool that offers reverse engineering and supports both MySQL and MS Access. Use it to reverse engineer your MySQL database into a database diagram, then change the underlying database to MS Access and use the tool to generate a database.
Check out Dezign For Databases which (on paper, anyway) offers the features you would need to do this.
To pump the data across, there are any number of tools. This kind of operation is generically referred to as ETL (Extract, Translate, Load).
Do you mean SQL Server? A good starting point might be to check out SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), which can be used for transferring data around like that.
Google will also be helpful, check out the first result:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237980
By the way, you said ".sql" in your question: a .SQL file is a script file, which could do anything from create a database, insert data, drop table, delete data, or given the right permissions, call system procedures and reboot a machine, format a drive, send an email.. Just for ref, .SQL files aren't the storage format used by SQL Server.
While you can script your database's schema into script files via something like SQLyog, you will find that the syntax varies enough from database to database (MySQL to Access, in your case) that you can't directly apply the scripts.
With much effort a conversion script could be created by editing the script (perhaps automated with a program, depending on the resulting script size). I think you would be better served using ODBC to copy the tables (and data) and then extracting and re-applying the relationships from the generated script by hand. Time consuming, but also a one time operation I would hope.
When both systems are the same database, there are tools that can do the comparison and script generation (TOAD for MySQL and RedGate Compare for Microsoft SQL), but they don't do cross database work (at least not the ones I am aware of).
If you create a ODBC DSN, you can use TransferDatabase to import from your MySQL database. You can do it manually with the GET EXTERNAL DATA command (or whatever it is in A2007/A2010) and see how well it works. It won't get all data types exactly right, but you could do some massaging and likely get it closer to what will work best.
Is there some reason you can't just link to the MySQL tables and use them directly? That is, why do you need to import into Access at all?
Access: run query. Just make sure to adapt the SQL code since every RDMS has its own sintaxis (despite SQL being an ANSI standard).
I'm creating a new Asp.Net MVC 3 application. Visual Studio does a lot of the job of create the database and initial layout. Very nice! I will upload that initial files to my server, but I want that it runs using the MySql database on the server.
There's some quick/easy way to do it? I'm not worried about the data, just the structure of the tables, and the connection/configuration changes.
Thank you very much!
You can export any MS-SQL database as a Script (Sql Server manager).
Fix it up to make it compatible.
But you will also need a Membership provider, look around if there exist any for MySql, otherwise you'll have to create one (movie).
There are a number of tools listed in "Migrating from Microsoft SQL Server and Access to MySQL".
Or (assuming that you're using column types that exist on both platforms) you can write a script to convert a schema dump from SqlServer into MySQL (or do the conversion by hand in a text editor). Even better yet, you can write a program program to read the INFORMATION_SCHEMA table from SqlServer and produce the necessary CREATE TABLE... statements in mysql. Lots of options.
I have a database (mdb file) that I am currently busy with. I would like to know if it is possible to generate MySQL code that would be used to create this database?
There are a couple of tools you can look at to try to do the conversion.
DataPump
Microsoft DTS (Nos Called SQL Server Integration Services)
Other option might be generate MySQL code from Access' DB MetaData you can access from JDBC, ODBC, ADO.NET or any other database access technology with metadata support. For this option you need to generate a piece of code (script). So it will only make sense if your access DataBase has a lot of table with a lot of columns or if you are planning to do this task several times.
Of course, using one of the mentioned tools will be faster if it works.
You can certainly write DDL to create and populate a MySQL database from the work that you've already done on Microsoft Access. Just put it in a text file that you execute using MySQL batch and you're all set.
If you intend to keep going with developing both, you'll want to think about how you'll keep the two in synch.