MOVing To SQL 2005 on Crystaltech.com

I have spent the last 2 months or so designing and modeling my new application backend in SQL Server 2005 Express edition.

I am ready to move it to a production copy of SQL Server 2005.

How do I go about this?

What kind of words can I put into google to bring some sort of results.

I have been looking in many places but no luck on how to take all the tables I have made (some with data, some not) and copy them to a live SQL 2005 Server.

Thanks in Advance for any help.

When I right-click on the Database in the Manager, I choose Tasks..

But Import / Export options are NOT THERE.

What do I do?

Why is this option not in my instance of SQL Express.

Thank you.

|||Depending on how you want the database hosted you could use detach/attach, backup/restore or scripting of schema and data.|||

How can I produce a schema? I'm assuming that is what I need to do. I am moving the database from my local machine (SQL Server Express) to a hosted SQL Server 2005 machine.

Thank you for your help,

Jon

|||You would need to write a few lines of code that call SMO.|||Jon,
I am in the same boat with my Express db. I have signed up with CrystalTech for hosting. Did you find a good solution to your problem?

Greg Lamb

Moving to client/server

Hi
I have an access mdb frontend/backend app. To use sql server as backend, is
it better to keep the mdb frontend or should I switch to adp instead?
Thanks
Regards
Hi,
That does not matter. All depends up on your requirement.
Thanks
Hari
SQL Server MVP
"John" <John@.nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi
> I have an access mdb frontend/backend app. To use sql server as backend,
> is it better to keep the mdb frontend or should I switch to adp instead?
> Thanks
> Regards
>
|||What is the criteria to choose one over the other?
Regards
"Hari Prasad" <hari_prasad_k@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> That does not matter. All depends up on your requirement.
> Thanks
> Hari
> SQL Server MVP
> "John" <John@.nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:e0AGovclFHA.2484@.TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>
|||Per John:
>What is the criteria to choose one over the other?
If you've got an Access UI that works, I can't think of any reason to migrate to
another platform unless performance goes down the tubes when the DB is migrated
and somehow the other platform can remedy that. OTOH, keeping the same UI and
feeding with with stored procedures would probably accomplish anything that
another tool could.
PeteCresswell
|||On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:23:35 -0700, "(PeteCresswell)" <x@.y.z.invalid> wrote:

>Per John:
>If you've got an Access UI that works, I can't think of any reason to migrate to
>another platform unless performance goes down the tubes when the DB is migrated
>and somehow the other platform can remedy that. OTOH, keeping the same UI and
>feeding with with stored procedures would probably accomplish anything that
>another tool could.
Even switching to stored procedures is a huge job that means re-engineering
all the editable bound forms, and it's usually not necessary.
Converting queries to views and/or stored procedured is a good idea when...
1. A particular Access query can't be convinced to optimize well using linked
tables.
2. There will be multiple front-ends and you want to move much of the business
logic to the server, so it can be managed in one place without changing
multiple applications. Note that if you have SQL Server 2000 or newer, you
can often do this with Views and Instead Of triggers rather than stored
procedures, which is a much more Access-friendly way of doing it.
|||You can keep access itself as frontend
"John" wrote:

> Hi
> I have an access mdb frontend/backend app. To use sql server as backend, is
> it better to keep the mdb frontend or should I switch to adp instead?
> Thanks
> Regards
>
>