I want to ''Copy'' 3 tables from an existing DB into a new DB on the same SqlServer instance

Is there a quick way in Management Studio to ... i don't know ... drag and drop or maybe copy and paste or import the 3 tables? (The 2 databases are on the same instance of SqlServer 2005)

-perplexed newbie

AFAIK .. there is no drag & drop or copy paste feature for this in SSMO. If u want only data u can use select *into DB1.DBo.ObjectName from DB1.dbo.Objectname. If you want with exact schema, then script it from DB1 run it in DB2 and then copy the data using insert into statement

Madhu

|||Right click on first db->Tasks->Export data... and you will go in an easy way to copy your tables|||

ggciubuc wrote:

Right click on first db->Tasks->Export data... and you will go in an easy way to copy your tables

this will cretae a table with only data not with all constraints. To create constratin u have to script it.

Madhu

|||Yes it is and is a normal situation because in a new database in many cases, there are not same relationships between tables. To the other part these constraints can be easy rebuild with Database Diagramssql

I want to ''Copy'' 3 tables from an existing DB into a new DB on the same SqlServer instance

Is there a quick way in Management Studio to ... i don't know ... drag and drop or maybe copy and paste or import the 3 tables? (The 2 databases are on the same instance of SqlServer 2005)

-perplexed newbie

AFAIK .. there is no drag & drop or copy paste feature for this in SSMO. If u want only data u can use select *into DB1.DBo.ObjectName from DB1.dbo.Objectname. If you want with exact schema, then script it from DB1 run it in DB2 and then copy the data using insert into statement

Madhu

|||Right click on first db->Tasks->Export data... and you will go in an easy way to copy your tables|||

ggciubuc wrote:

Right click on first db->Tasks->Export data... and you will go in an easy way to copy your tables

this will cretae a table with only data not with all constraints. To create constratin u have to script it.

Madhu

|||Yes it is and is a normal situation because in a new database in many cases, there are not same relationships between tables. To the other part these constraints can be easy rebuild with Database Diagramssql

I want to ''Copy'' 3 tables from an existing DB into a new DB on the same SqlServer instance

Is there a quick way in Management Studio to ... i don't know ... drag and drop or maybe copy and paste or import the 3 tables? (The 2 databases are on the same instance of SqlServer 2005)

-perplexed newbie

AFAIK .. there is no drag & drop or copy paste feature for this in SSMO. If u want only data u can use select *into DB1.DBo.ObjectName from DB1.dbo.Objectname. If you want with exact schema, then script it from DB1 run it in DB2 and then copy the data using insert into statement

Madhu

|||Right click on first db->Tasks->Export data... and you will go in an easy way to copy your tables|||

ggciubuc wrote:

Right click on first db->Tasks->Export data... and you will go in an easy way to copy your tables

this will cretae a table with only data not with all constraints. To create constratin u have to script it.

Madhu

|||Yes it is and is a normal situation because in a new database in many cases, there are not same relationships between tables. To the other part these constraints can be easy rebuild with Database Diagrams

I want to ''Copy'' 3 tables from an existing DB into a new DB on the same SqlServer instance

Is there a quick way in Management Studio to ... i don't know ... drag and drop or maybe copy and paste or import the 3 tables? (The 2 databases are on the same instance of SqlServer 2005)

-perplexed newbie

AFAIK .. there is no drag & drop or copy paste feature for this in SSMO. If u want only data u can use select *into DB1.DBo.ObjectName from DB1.dbo.Objectname. If you want with exact schema, then script it from DB1 run it in DB2 and then copy the data using insert into statement

Madhu

|||Right click on first db->Tasks->Export data... and you will go in an easy way to copy your tables|||

ggciubuc wrote:

Right click on first db->Tasks->Export data... and you will go in an easy way to copy your tables

this will cretae a table with only data not with all constraints. To create constratin u have to script it.

Madhu

|||Yes it is and is a normal situation because in a new database in many cases, there are not same relationships between tables. To the other part these constraints can be easy rebuild with Database Diagrams

I want to ''Copy'' 3 tables from an existing DB into a new DB on the same SqlServer instance

Is there a quick way in Management Studio to ... i don't know ... drag and drop or maybe copy and paste or import the 3 tables? (The 2 databases are on the same instance of SqlServer 2005)

-perplexed newbie

AFAIK .. there is no drag & drop or copy paste feature for this in SSMO. If u want only data u can use select *into DB1.DBo.ObjectName from DB1.dbo.Objectname. If you want with exact schema, then script it from DB1 run it in DB2 and then copy the data using insert into statement

Madhu

|||Right click on first db->Tasks->Export data... and you will go in an easy way to copy your tables|||

ggciubuc wrote:

Right click on first db->Tasks->Export data... and you will go in an easy way to copy your tables

this will cretae a table with only data not with all constraints. To create constratin u have to script it.

Madhu

|||Yes it is and is a normal situation because in a new database in many cases, there are not same relationships between tables. To the other part these constraints can be easy rebuild with Database Diagrams

I want to ''Copy'' 3 tables from an existing DB into a new DB on the same SqlServer instance

Is there a quick way in Management Studio to ... i don't know ... drag and drop or maybe copy and paste or import the 3 tables? (The 2 databases are on the same instance of SqlServer 2005)

-perplexed newbie

AFAIK .. there is no drag & drop or copy paste feature for this in SSMO. If u want only data u can use select *into DB1.DBo.ObjectName from DB1.dbo.Objectname. If you want with exact schema, then script it from DB1 run it in DB2 and then copy the data using insert into statement

Madhu

|||Right click on first db->Tasks->Export data... and you will go in an easy way to copy your tables|||

ggciubuc wrote:

Right click on first db->Tasks->Export data... and you will go in an easy way to copy your tables

this will cretae a table with only data not with all constraints. To create constratin u have to script it.

Madhu

|||Yes it is and is a normal situation because in a new database in many cases, there are not same relationships between tables. To the other part these constraints can be easy rebuild with Database Diagrams

I TRIED THE PACKAGE AND IT FAILS ALL THE TIME

I think I am missing something, and this something I could achieve with Enterprise Manager. How do I copy one object, lke a table, including primary keys, indexed and triggers, plus data, from one SQL Server to another, or a set of tables? I am at a loss. Of I choose "Copy Data", that is not the same because the table data is copied, but nothing else, not even the primary key gets transferred. So the arriving table is --quite frankly-- useless. What do I do with a table that lacks keys, constraints, indexes and triggers?. On the other hand, I don't see any click-and-shoot way to transfer the missing information for one single or a few tables together. If I script the table, the table gets dropped and recreated, so I lose the data. In the older Enterprise Manager, you cold choose "transfer objects", and everything moved along, data and script, so the arriving table could be used immediately.
Am I going blind or somebody dropped the ball here?

There is a "Transfer Objects Task" in SSIS which does this. I don't know if it gets used by the import/export wizard cos I've never looked at it but the fact that you can't find it probably means that it isn't in which case you'll have to build your own package to do this. Which won't be at all difficult.

-Jamie|||Jamie is correct. The transfer objects functionality does not appear in the wizard, but is available in the SSIS package designer.|||[Transfer SQL Server Objects Task] Error: Execution failed with the following error: "Cannot apply value null to property Login: Value cannot be null..".

To make the problem more clear: I don't need to transfer logins, just the tables, views, stored procedures, user data types, user-defined functions and defaults.

I think that Microsoft watered down the Enterprise Manager, and is doing exactly what they did with VB6 on Vb.NET, take away the best of the tool: in that case it was change-and-contine, and in the case, the wizards became useless. In any case, I built a package and get the error above all the time, no matter what database I intend transfer from SQL 2000. How do I get around this? I can not start working until I transfer my objects and data, so I need some help here, not just some philosophical advice.
If it takes a lot of steps to achieve what we did with one single wizard, the somebody dropped the ball at Microsof. The "Export Data" should allow the user to select all the details of the transfer. I manage close to 20 SQL Server production machines, and I use that transfer wizard day in and day out.|||Funny you bring this up, we were doing some migrations earlier. I have blogged about it here: http://jason.blogsource.com/

Hope this helps steer you in the right direction...|||I read you blog but I can not guess what the reaso for my error is. Any ideas?|||I was referring to your earlier problem: where you could get tbl structures but not data.... The method I illustrated does add extra steps but is a way if you are desperate.|||

So I assume that you in fact used a package to transfer entire databases from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 and it worked? you never got the error that I am getting?

Message: Execution failed with the following error: "Cannot apply value null to property Login: Value cannot be null..".

I wonder what is possibly the matter.

I think I found the solution

I recently (yesterday) installed a fresh copy of Windows XP with Service Pack 2 applied.

I proceeded with Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions installation straight away.

But I cannot install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition x86.

I choose to install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition x86 component along with every component of visual studio but it simply would not install.

In the end, after the installation of each complete is complete, I simply get an error message saying that Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition x86 failed to install.

What is the problem?

First take a look at the following file: %Program Files%\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\log\summary.txt. This should point you to which component failed and the specific log file for the component. When you open the component log file search for "Value 3" (this is a Windows Installer code for the error section). Take a look at +/- 10 lines for the error.

If the summary.txt file doesn't provide any clues, take a look at: %Program Files%\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\log\files\*_core(local).txt - open the most recent one if there are multiple. Go to the end of the file and you should find some clues as to why the installation failed.

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I looked. There were three errors and all of them said that installation cannot be done to a compressed drive

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Error : SQL Server Setup cannot install files to the compressed or encrypted folder: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\. To continue, make sure that your installation directories are not compressed or encrypted, or specify a different directory, and then run SQL Server Setup again.

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I'll remove drive compression and try again.

Thanks for help!

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I am having the same problem - cannot install SQL Server Express, I looked in the file you mentioned to the other fellow and it says:

D43QNW81 : SQL Server 2005 Setup has detected incompatible components from beta versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, or SQL Server 2005. Use Add or Remove Programs to remove these components, and then run SQL Server 2005 Setup again. For detailed instructions on uninstalling SQL Server 2005, see the SQL Server 2005 Readme.

but I HAVE removed all components except a thing called Enterprise Library June 2005, and thaat one will not un-install without dot net framework 1.1

is that it? do I have to go ALL the way back?

any help will be much appreciated, I installed the whole works in a Virutal machine and now I am trying to install it on my base machine (because the Virtual one is too slow)

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David,

You can take a look at the latest *_core(local).log file to see which old component it's detecting. The log files can be found here: %Program Files%\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\log\files

If you email me directly at dtjones@.microsoft.com I can send you a clean up script. The script isn't supported but we've had good luck with it.

Cheers,
Dan