MS SQL 2000 full export (not backup)

Hi Everybody,

I am kind of new to MS SQL server databases. I like to take a full export at database level. When I use DTS wizard, it did allow me to take one table at a given time. I have 1000's of table in my database. Manually doing so is not possible. Should i call the 'bcp' command line utility 1000 times to collect the table data to 1000 different flatfiles or is there any provision to take export of all the 1000 tables in one single command/tool.

Many thanks.You should be able to use DTS to export the entire database at one time. Just right click on the database (in EM), click on all tasks and select export data.

Specify your source server/database, your target server/database and then select either copy tables and views or copy objects. Copy objects is more useful when you are trying to recreate the database structure. Copy data just moves over any tables.

Regards,

hmscott|||Thanks for your reply scott. my export is just a part of the work, because, i have to drop the entire instance and recreate it including 'master' database due to collation name change. So, i cannot export it to another database under this instance or to a different instance (due to space restriction). Hence my initial interest is to go with a flat (text) file. Is it still possible ?

Thanks|||Or...

If exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[isp_bcp_out_database]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsProcedure') = 1)
drop procedure [dbo].[isp_bcp_out_database]
GO

CREATE PROC isp_bcp_out_database
@.dbName sysname
, @.fp varchar(255)
, @.User varchar(255)
, @.Pwd varchar(255)
AS
/*
EXEC isp_bcp_out_database
'Northwind'
, 'd:\Data\Northwind\'
, 'sa'
, ''

*/

SET NOCOUNT ON

DECLARE bcpout CURSOR FOR
SELECT -- 'EXEC Master..xp_cmdshell ' +
-- '"D:\MSSQL7\Binn\bcp.exe ' + db_Name() + '.[' + TABLE_SCHEMA + '].[' + TABLE_NAME+'] '
'bcp ' + db_Name() + '.[' + TABLE_SCHEMA + '].[' + TABLE_NAME+'] '
+ 'out ' + @.fp + '\DATA\'+TABLE_SCHEMA +'_'+ REPLACE(TABLE_NAME,' ','_') + '.dat '
+ '-S'+@.@.SERVERNAME+' -U'+@.User+' -P'+@.Pwd+' '
+ '-f'+@.fp+'FORMAT\'+TABLE_SCHEMA +'_'+REPLACE(TABLE_NAME,' ','_')+'.fmt '
+ ' > ' + @.fp + 'DATA\'+TABLE_SCHEMA +'_'+ REPLACE(TABLE_NAME,' ','_') + '.log'
-- + ', no_output' AS CMD
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Tables
WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
ORDER BY TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME

DECLARE @.CMD varchar(8000)

--create table a (id int identity(1,1), Add_Dt datetime DEFAULT GetDate(), s varchar(1000))
-- DROP TABLE a
OPEN bcpout

FETCH NEXT FROM bcpout INTO @.CMD

WHILE @.@.FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
SELECT @.CMD
SELECT @.CMD = 'ECHO ' + @.CMD + ' > ' + @.fp + '\bcpout.bat'
EXEC master..xp_cmdshell @.CMD
SELECT @.CMD = @.fp + '\bcpout.bat'
SELECT @.CMD
insert a (s)
exec master..xp_cmdshell @.cmd

FETCH NEXT FROM bcpout INTO @.CMD
END

CLOSE bcpout
DEALLOCATE bcpout

select id, ouputtmp = s from a

SET NOCOUNT OFF
GO|||Yurk. That's the second post I've seen today from someone needing to change the collation on their server.

I think for this you will sincerely want a second database server available as the target for your export. A developer license is cheap ($50?). Put it on a handy box and then away you go.

Short of that, you might be able to work out some combination of backup, re-install, restore (to different DB name), script off db, change collation specified in script, run script to create new DB and then use DTS to copy the data from the restored DB to the new DB.

Am I making sense? It IS getting close to 5:00 here. At 5:00, the value of my responses declines by at least 75%.

Regards,

hmscott|||Or just do what Brett (BCP King) Kaiser suggests.

Brett, is it any coincidence that your initials BK might stand for 'BCP King'?

regards,

hmscott|||Got a chuckle out of that one...

You can point that code at ANY database...

I think you'll need a DELETE in there for table a...I originally had it as a temp table (still want to delete a temp, so that's no excuse...just poor coding habit)

Oh and the table is to log the events for each bcp...

Let us know if it works out...just make sure you got plent of drive space...

I wouldn't do this over a network either...

just copy the files when they're done...|||Many Thanks for both of you (Scott and Brett).
I am browsing Brett's script. I am sure that, it will be a big help to get the export work done successfully. Hope I will get my next 15 instances converted from Latin1_General_CI_AS to SQL_Latin1_General_CI_AS ASAP. Thank you very much.|||15 Instances! On 1 box?

Wow

:eek: