Hi Nicholas. Thanks for your reply.
The table I want to copy is 1.5 to 2 gigs....and needs needs to be done at the end of every month, and say I want to keep 3 years (Which I currenly do in VFP) even with Sql Sever R2 express which I think allows for 8 Gids on a Database , I will quickly run out of space , particulalrly if I want to keep in the one Database

I was looking for a way to copy a Table, but outside the database, so that I could easily import it back in again , to say a temporary databse Table, if I needed datat from it.

Retards,
Gerard


>>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
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>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.