>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>Say I have two tables in a SQL Server database, Parent and Child.
>>>>>I want to copy/duplicate these two tables in another database keeping all records with their PK values the same. So that the second copy of the tables (in a new DB) is exactly the same as in the first.
>>>>>How do you do it?
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>>>>Connection having access to both databases you simply use select into:
>>>>
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>>>>select * into targetDb..targetTable from sourceDb..sourceTable
>>>>

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>>>First, thank you. And even PK fields will have the same values?
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>>Yes. With this approach, initially there isn't even a primary key set. You can use alter commands and create index ... It might need more scripts depending on what exactly you want to achieve.
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>Thank you. I will try this approach. Creating indexes I can do "manually" as long as all records are replicated in the second DB.

Yes they would be. This is like doing "copy to" in VFP.