Can SMO Import/Export like BCP and DMO ?

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Can SMO Import/Export like BCP and DMO ?

High_Yield

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April 2, 2008 at 3:37 pm

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Hi-
It appears that DMO has been deprecapted by Microsoft and "Replaced" by SMO. But, I need to export table data (not schema) to flat files, and then later possibly import the data back in. Can I do such things using SMO or am I stuck with using an Interop wrapper around DMO for C# ?
Truly ANY help is appreciated - thanks - B

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High_Yield SSC Veteran Points: 216 More actions · Answer 1

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April 9, 2008 at 1:10 pm

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Tim Mitchell SSCoach Points: 15681 More actions · Answer 2

There are some limited capabilities in SMO to actually move data around, but in my opinion trying to do this is like using the heel of your shoe to hammer in a nail. You'll be much better served using the SQL Client namespace (Microsoft.Data.SqlClient). The MSDN reference can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.aspx.

hth,

Tim

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 3

Why can't you just use BCP for this?

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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