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1 month 2 weeks ago #22794 by hanisultan
Hello, 
We have an old database (SQL 2008 R)  with millions of records and we decided to split it into multiple databases with the same exact schema.  We have over 6k clients so we will be moving few clients at the time to different databses.  The problem is we have  the data in over 1500 tables in the source database to move to same tables in the target database.  Can we do this in the ATEL without creating 1500 transformation (read and write) because that would be too much.  I thought I ask you and see if you have a method in AETL where we can use and accomplish this.  Please let me know if you have any questions or need additional information.   Thank you 

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1 month 2 weeks ago #22796 by Peter.Jonson
I think using SQL script is a much simplier option in your case

I have created an example for you.

SET NOCOUNT ON
DECLARE @TARGET_DATABASE VARCHAR(50)  
DECLARE @TABLE_CATALOG VARCHAR(255)  
DECLARE @TABLE_SCHEMA VARCHAR(255)  
DECLARE @TABLE_NAME VARCHAR(255)  
DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(1000)

SET @TARGET_DATABASE ='CLONE'

DECLARE t_cursor CURSOR FOR 
SELECT  TABLE_CATALOG,TABLE_SCHEMA,TABLE_NAME from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES where TABLE_TYPE='BASE TABLE' 

OPEN t_cursor  
FETCH NEXT FROM t_cursor INTO @TABLE_CATALOG,@TABLE_SCHEMA,@TABLE_NAME  

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0  
BEGIN  
      SET @SQL= ' select * into  ..  from ..' 
      print @SQL
      EXEC(@SQL)
      FETCH NEXT FROM t_cursor INTO @TABLE_CATALOG,@TABLE_SCHEMA,@TABLE_NAME  
END 

CLOSE t_cursor  
DEALLOCATE t_cursor 

You can tweak it further by adding a where statement and using a custom list of tables

I hope you will find it useful
 

Peter Jonson
ETL Developer
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1 month 2 weeks ago #22797 by hanisultan
That is what we are currently doing, store procedures and functions, something exactly like your idea. Thank you
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