the process of moving databases or data from one place to another
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How can I move a database from one server to another?
How can I move MySQL tables from one physical server to another?
Such as this exact scenario:
I have a MySQL server that uses innodb table and is about 20GB size.
I want to move it to a new server, ...
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Are SQL Server in-place upgrades as ill advised as they used to be?
I have been working with SQL server on and off since SQL Server 6.5, the old advice that still rings in my head was never to do an in-place upgrade.
I'm currently upgrading my 2008 R2 DEV and TEST ...
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Need to migrate SQL Server to MySQL
I have a database on SQL Server 2008 on a Windows server and I want to move all of the data to a MySQL database on a Ubuntu server. I have tried using the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard with the ...
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Fastest way to move a database from one server to another
I'm moving a single MySQL database (~10GB uncompressed) from one server to another on the same network. The current MySQL version is 5.1.41 and the new version is 5.5.24. The database contains both ...
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How to migrate large blob table from mysql to postgresql?
I'm now in process of migrating my MySQL database to PostgreSQL. Almost everything went fine (well, after lots of googling for correct mysqldump params etc.) except one table I have - actually the ...
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Should I migrate data using detach/copy/attach or through backup-restore-replay?
I am about to embark on migrating database files to a new SAN (from an old SAN) abd I have a couple of options to implement this. (1) It was suggested that I look into the level of effort of restoring ...
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A Non-DBA Asks: How to Painlessly Copy/Move a SQL Server instance to another Server via Backup/Restore?
We've just got a new server so I need to copy the existing SQL Server 2008 instance over from the old db box.
I normally do this by copying .mdf and log files over and attaching them but I'm not able ...
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Migrating from one SQL Server 2008 R2 instance to another
I just started a new dba job and have been given a new server and told to move everything from the old server to the new one, brand new windows and SQL Server installations. I know I have to transfer ...
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Migrating large database
What is a quick way of migrating 75G database to the cluster? I tried to test the backup and restore and it took more than 2 hrs. Business owners won't accept the long outage. Any idea how I can make ...
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What is the easiest way to move data from Oracle to SQL Server?
One of our products supports both Oracle and SQL Server as database backend. We have a customer who wishes to switch from an Oracle backend to Microsoft SQL Server, which isn't a typical transition ...
