Restore a single table from backup

  • Is there a way to restore just one table from a backup ?

    Adding the backuped (sic) table as a new table would be fine too.

    TIA for the help.

    João ALberto

  • No, what you need to do is restore the backup to another database, and then DTS the table back to your original database.

    Gregory Larsen, DBA

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  • TKS Greg,

    already done and worked fine.

  • I think it's interesting that in SQL Server 6.5 you have the ability restore specific tables only, if you wish. I'm not going to say anything positive about SQL 6.5, as I'm sure eliminating this capability made backups MUCH more efficient.


    -Ken

  • The one other thing that you can do with very large tables is to place them on a separate filegroup and backup the filegroup as a separate backup file. So if you needed to restore the table you could do the restore of just that filegroup. It would need some upfront database design, to set up all the different filegroups. In this way you could even put fairly small code type tables all on a separate filegroup and back that up.

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