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Gabe
Gabe

Reputation: 50475

Copy Data from a table in one Database to another separate database

Basically I have a two databases on SQL Server 2005.

I want to take the table data from one database and copy it to another database's table.

I tried this:

SELECT * INTO dbo.DB1.TempTable FROM dbo.DB2.TempTable

This didn't work.

I don't want to use a restore to avoid data loss...

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 59

Views: 242238

Answers (13)

Om Sao
Om Sao

Reputation: 7643

These manual way provides more flexibility, but at the same time, works for table whose size is smaller to few thousands.

Do select * from <table name> from DB, once whole table is displayed, scroll till it's bottom.

Right click and do Export table as Insert statement, provide the name of the destination table and export the table as .sql file.

Use any text editor to further do regular find and replace operation to include more column names etc.

Use the INSERT statement in destination DB.

Upvotes: 0

Abhishek Dubey
Abhishek Dubey

Reputation: 49

select * from DBA1.TABLENAMEA;

create table TABLENAMEA as (select * from DBA1.TABLENAMEA);

Upvotes: 0

Shahid Malik
Shahid Malik

Reputation: 171

You can copy one table to other db table even with some additional columns.

insert into [SchoolDb1].[dbo].Student(Col1, Col2,Col3, CreationTime, IsDeleted) 
select Col1, Col2,Col3,,getdate(),0 from [SchoolDb2].[dbo].Student

These are additional columns: (CreationTime is datatime and IsDeleted is boolean)

Upvotes: 0

Ghebrehiywet
Ghebrehiywet

Reputation: 934

This works successfully.

INSERT INTO DestinationDB.dbo.DestinationTable (col1,col1)
 SELECT Src-col1,Src-col2 FROM SourceDB.dbo.SourceTable

Upvotes: 0

Leon
Leon

Reputation: 21

Im prefer this one.

INSERT INTO 'DB_NAME' 
(SELECT * from 'DB_NAME@DB_LINK')
MINUS 
(SELECT * FROM 'DB_NAME');

Which means will insert whatsoever that not included on DB_NAME but included at DB_NAME@DB_LINK. Hope this help.

Upvotes: 2

Sabri Mevis
Sabri Mevis

Reputation: 2431

Don't forget to insert SET IDENTITY_INSERT MobileApplication1 ON to the top, else you will get an error. This is for SQL Server

SET IDENTITY_INSERT MOB.MobileApplication1 ON
INSERT INTO [SERVER1].DB.MOB.MobileApplication1 m
      (m.MobileApplicationDetailId,
       m.MobilePlatformId)
SELECT ma.MobileApplicationId,
       ma.MobilePlatformId 
FROM [SERVER2].DB.MOB.MobileApplication2 ma

Upvotes: 3

Sundeep Kumar Chowdary
Sundeep Kumar Chowdary

Reputation: 11

INSERT INTO DB1.dbo.TempTable
SELECT * FROM DB2.dbo.TempTable

If we use this query it will return Primary key error.... So better to choose which columns need to be moved, like

INSERT INTO db1.dbo.TempTable // (List of columns here)
SELECT (Same list of columns here)
FROM db2.dbo.TempTable

Upvotes: 1

Deepak Kothari
Deepak Kothari

Reputation: 1753

We can three part naming like database_name..object_name

The below query will create the table into our database(with out constraints) 

SELECT * 
INTO DestinationDB..MyDestinationTable 
FROM SourceDB..MySourceTable

Alternatively you could: 

INSERT INTO DestinationDB..MyDestinationTable 
SELECT * FROM SourceDB..MySourceTable

If your destination table exists and is empty.

Upvotes: 5

Peter Lange
Peter Lange

Reputation: 2876

Hard to say without any idea what you mean by "it didn't work." There are a whole lot of things that can go wrong and any advice we give in troubleshooting one of those paths may lead you further and further from finding a solution, which may be really simple.

Here's a something I would look for though,

Identity Insert must be on on the table you are importing into if that table contains an identity field and you are manually supplying it. Identity Insert can also only be enabled for 1 table at a time in a database, so you must remember to enable it for the table, then disable it immediately after you are done importing.

Also, try listing out all your fields

INSERT INTO db1.user.MyTable (Col1, Col2, Col3)
SELECT Col1, COl2, Col3 FROM db2.user.MyTable

Upvotes: 6

Mitchel Sellers
Mitchel Sellers

Reputation: 63126

SELECT * INTO requires that the destination table not exist.

Try this.

INSERT INTO db1.dbo.TempTable
 (List of columns here)
SELECT (Same list of columns here)
FROM db2.dbo.TempTable

Upvotes: 21

Tom H
Tom H

Reputation: 47444

SELECT ... INTO creates a new table. You'll need to use INSERT. Also, you have the database and owner names reversed.

INSERT INTO DB1.dbo.TempTable
SELECT * FROM DB2.dbo.TempTable

Upvotes: 79

David Basarab
David Basarab

Reputation: 73301

Try this

INSERT INTO dbo.DB1.TempTable
    (COLUMNS)
    SELECT COLUMNS_IN_SAME_ORDER FROM dbo.DB2.TempTable

This will only fail if an item in dbo.DB2.TempTable is in already in dbo.DB1.TempTable.

Upvotes: 0

Aaron Alton
Aaron Alton

Reputation: 23236

It's db1.dbo.TempTable and db2.dbo.TempTable

The four-part naming scheme goes:

ServerName.DatabaseName.Schema.Object

Upvotes: 10

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