Insert 79 million records from one table of one db to another table of different db

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Hi,
I have a table X on DB A which has 79 million records.
I want to transfer these records to DB B table Y.
When I run the insert statement, it fails. Also it is observed that CPU utilization is high that time.
How can I achieve this using SQL Server?

Thanks,
Lok.

What I have tried:

I tried insert select but it fails.

Posted 28-Jun-18 3:02am

Lokesh Zende

Updated 30-Jun-18 22:30pm

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[no name] 28-Jun-18 9:33am

Have a look here, accepted answer, Option 2 sounds good to me:
sql - Transfer data from one database to another database - Stack Overflow[^]

RedDk 28-Jun-18 14:16pm

I want to know what the exact error message from SQL Server was. Every line of it. Substitution of sensitive terms excepted.

[no name] 28-Jun-18 15:10pm

Did you insert "any" records?

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Krunal Rohit · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-30T21:21:00

79 million is quite a amount. Though you can try following things-
1. Go with scripting (still I think, it'd fail)
2. Go with SELECT * INTO statement

SQL

SELECT * INTO [db-name].new-table-name
FROM [db-name].table-name [WHERE condition]

You can try to insert few records at a time and follow the same again. I'd suggest you to use ROW_NUMBER[^] and WHILE loop to give it a go.

I have done with around 83K records

KR