I can't live without Red-Gate... > Which of them do you use to copy/duplicate/synchronise
http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Compare/ for DB structure. http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Data_Compare/ for DB contents. On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Mike Kear <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Paul. I see those Red gates packages are a series of $395 > applications. My tiny company isn't going to afford $5000 worth of > tools, or even the bundle price around $1000. > > Which of them do you use to copy/duplicate/synchronise databases > between two servers? > > Cheers > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > AFP Webworks > http://afpwebworks.com > ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month > > > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Paul Kukiel <[email protected]> wrote: > > We recently got Red gates toolbelt SQL tools. Like you upgrading/ > > moving databases was time consuming and difficult. Now its just so > > much easier. http://www.red-gate.com/products/ > > SQL_Professional_Toolbelt/index.htm > > > > Paul Kukiel > > > > > > > > On 04/01/2009, at 7:30 PM, Mike Kear wrote: > > > >> I'm heartily sick of the tedious way I have to spend half a day or > >> more EACH WEEK uploading and downloading databases from my > >> SQLServer2005 web sites. > >> I'm going to have another go at learning the best way to do this . . > >> > >> Can someone please give me some help... IN the old days I used > >> to have a > >> DTS task running overnight automatically, copying databases to and > >> from my dev environment to the production web sites. > >> > >> Since SQLServer2005 there has been no way that I can find, to create > >> a DTS task and reuse it EACH TIME I have to create it, and regardless > >> of whether I save the DTS task or not, it's not available next time > >> for me to reuse. > >> I have ot create it all over again. Needless to say it's really > >> PISSING > >> ME OFF! > >> > >> Can someone please tell me how I can create a method of copying entire > >> databases which might have 40tables or more with the indexes, and key > >> relationships etc from remote servers to my local database server, or > >> conversely from my dev environment to my production server. > >> > >> And also how I can do this in a way that the task is repeatable > >> without having to be created every time. > >> > >> I've tried using Visual Studio 2005 but that has finally defeated me. > >> I can never find what I want to use, and the MS Help files are total > >> gobbldegook > >> to me. I cant make head nor tail of it. After 3 years of > >> wrestling with > >> Visual Studio I have had to give up. There's no way to save any > >> file from > >> that and reuse it. Not that I've found anyway. The best I've ever > >> managed to do is create a solution, and run debug every time. > >> And that > >> takes 30 minutes to an hour to run a simple job of copying 3 tables, > >> and ties up my machine completely for the duration. > >> > >> I'm sure my problem is that I'm trying to use the wrong tools, or > >> that I just don't know how to use the tools correctly, but I'm > >> despairing of ever getting back to the neat and tidy way I had to do > >> this in the old SQLServer2000 days. > >> > >> Incidentally, just as an additional comment to my plea ... > >> > >> I cant use the copy database wizard, because it's a shared server and > >> I don't have admin rights. So I cant create a database on the > >> remote server using SQLServer management studio. > >> > >> For the same reason I cant create a backup and then restore it on the > >> other server.. > >> > >> For the same reason I cant use replication in any way. > >> > >> For the same reason, detaching, FTP then attach to the other server is > >> out as well. > >> > >> > >> I think Microsoft forgot entirely about the thousands of people using > >> shared hosting servers when they developed SQLServer2005. And I'm > >> told there's no provision for it in the new 2008 version either. > >> <sigh> > >> > >> So what do the rest of you people on shared hosts do?? > >> -- > >> Cheers > >> Mike Kear > >> Windsor, NSW, Australia > >> Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > >> AFP Webworks > >> http://afpwebworks.com > >> ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month > >> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317382 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
