Question on System and Data Restore

DataPro

new to SQL Server 2000. We have an obsolete database that we need to
save off for x number of years. DB2 has utilities (DB2Look/Export)
that allows for the export of the data along with a schema and script
that enables the future recreation of the structure of the databases
and tables to include RI etc. You can save off the architecture and
relationships of the tables as well as the data.

Does SQL Server have anything similar?

Thanks in advance.

Gerry

Sep 20 '06 #1

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Erland Sommarskog

DataPro (da*******@yahoo.com) writes:

new to SQL Server 2000. We have an obsolete database that we need to
save off for x number of years. DB2 has utilities (DB2Look/Export)
that allows for the export of the data along with a schema and script
that enables the future recreation of the structure of the databases
and tables to include RI etc. You can save off the architecture and
relationships of the tables as well as the data.

Does SQL Server have anything similar?

I don't see why you would anything else than a normal database backup?
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, es****@sommarskog.se

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Sep 20 '06 #2

DataPro

In DB2, to save off data and structure we use utilties db2look and
db2export.

I can see that in SQL Server that I can script (ddl) the objects and
relationships and export the data. Its, I believe a matter of
redundancy more than anything else/

Thanks
Erland Sommarskog wrote:

DataPro (da*******@yahoo.com) writes:
new to SQL Server 2000. We have an obsolete database that we need to
save off for x number of years. DB2 has utilities (DB2Look/Export)
that allows for the export of the data along with a schema and script
that enables the future recreation of the structure of the databases
and tables to include RI etc. You can save off the architecture and
relationships of the tables as well as the data.

Does SQL Server have anything similar?

I don't see why you would anything else than a normal database backup?
--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, es****@sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...ads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinf...ons/books.mspx

Sep 21 '06 #3

Erland Sommarskog

DataPro (da*******@yahoo.com) writes:

In DB2, to save off data and structure we use utilties db2look and
db2export.

I can see that in SQL Server that I can script (ddl) the objects and
relationships and export the data. Its, I believe a matter of
redundancy more than anything else/

There are of course situations where you want to duplicate a schema or
copy the data from one database to another.

But since you talked about future recreation, it sounded more like a
backup to me.

Note that for development you should keep all your SQL code under
version control. If you do this, there is rarely any reason to script
from the database, since the version-control system holds the truth
about the system.

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, es****@sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...ads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinf...ons/books.mspx

Sep 21 '06 #4

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