Copy database from one database to another with minimum data

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Im having a database with 500 GB. I have to create a sample database from my original database with the size of 10 GB. In my sample database i need sample of 1000 records from each table from the original database since original database having lakhs of records. Original database tables have constraints and Index i want the same in my sample database tables.

How to create a sample database?

Posted 2-May-13 21:13pm

kirthiga S

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Sant Osha · Answer 1 · 2013-05-02T21:34:00

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create database your_db_name
select top 100 * into table_name from table_name // use this line for all tables

//better option is that you create an application and inside for loop execute this query

Posted 2-May-13 21:34pm

Sant Osha

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kirthiga S 3-May-13 4:34am

Im having more than 4000 tables in my database. It is not easy to use select * into for all the tables. One more thing i want all constraints and indexes as it is.

Sant Osha 3-May-13 5:23am

that was i typed also.. create application for that

Sant Osha 3-May-13 5:29am

you can also use cursor