>Hi
>In my app, at month end I need to take a copy of a few Tables, which will be refrred to occasionlly subsequently. I am wondering whats the best way of doing this in SqlServer . I do need to keep a copy of these at a pint in time, but dont particulalrly want to bloat the Database with them.
>The tables typically could be 1.6 Gigs to 2 Gigs
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>In VFP, I used to just take a copy of the Table (as a free Table outside the database) and append the date to it (so it would be called something like MyTable_27_02_2012). This way, its kept outside the DBC, but I can refer to it easily if i need to.
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>I have seen a BulkCopyToXml, but am concerned that , because XML causes a lot of bloat, the XML file will end up to be very large. Are there any other options worth considering ?
>Tia
>Gerard


Why not create a database on your server and then create a data export package to take a copy of the tables into that. You could schedule that to run once a month.