>>>>>>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?
>>>>>
>>>>>Connection having access to both databases you simply use select into:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>select * into targetDb..targetTable from sourceDb..sourceTable
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>First, thank you. And even PK fields will have the same values?
>>>
>>>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.
Thank you.
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