I do this all the time with WDDX packets. I expect XML is the modern
way. Depending on how well your machines can talk to each other it could
be completely automatic.

Douglas Jordon wrote:
> 
> We need to synch a db that drives a web site to the master on our
> clients LAN. Because of licensing concerns, the two DB can't talk
> directly to each other, and it has been decided that an intermediary is
> called for. So I need to:
> 
> 1. Copy a few tables and query another(for all columns except one
> containing binary data) to the intermediary DB.
> 
> 2. Send those tables to replace those on the website(the server DB also
> contains some tables that will not be updated in this process).
> 
> Since their traffic is very light(maybe a sale or addition a week on
> average) eveyone agrees that weekly synchs are sufficient.
> 
> What we've done during the development phase is to take a DUMP file from
> their daily backups, restore it on out server, and then use DTS to ship
> it up to the server. This works, but we'd like to automate the process.
> What's the best and/or easiest way? We're obviously not SQL server gurus
> but would like to learn more.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Doug Jordon
> 
> 
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