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Table level backup

Satish S

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April 17, 2011 at 12:20 pm

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Hi All,
I want to know table level backup mean.....
select * into Table1_bak from Table1
Then export the data... Is it correct?
If wrong please explain me.....
Thanks in advance...
Satish

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Syed Jahanzaib Bin hassan SSChampion Points: 11410 More actions · Answer 1

Yes, It will create the backup of a table

SELECT * INTO TABLE_BAK_ FROM TABLE1

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Satish S Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 580 More actions · Answer 2

Thank you,

But i am not understand what is the importance because in that database only already we have table, then why we take only one table & that is also as like copy of table...

Will you explain me please.......

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 3

You could call that table-level backup, but it's really just making a copy of the table within the same database. SQL doesn't have the ability to backup tables (using the BACKUP statement). Just database, filegroup or file.

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Satish S Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 580 More actions · Answer 4

Is it importent to take the backup of importent table?

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 5

I'd prefer a good backup strategy of the entire database, rather than exports of a single table.

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JeffRush SSC Eights! Points: 855 More actions · Answer 6

I've most often seen this technique used prior to doing manual data manipulation on the source table so you have an easily accessible copy of the original data.

Also, using it with a 'where 1 =0' is useful for spinning up an empty table with the same table definition.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 7

JeffRush (4/17/2011)
I've most often seen this technique used prior to doing manual data manipulation on the source table so you have an easily accessible copy of the original data.
Also, using it with a 'where 1 =0' is useful for spinning up an empty table with the same table definition.

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