CHAPTER 5

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SQL Server Sources

In this book, we look at importing data from several relational databases, and some of the ways in which they can be used as data sources for SQL Server. Yet there is one relational database we have not talked about, and that is SQL Server itself. So to continue our “data source tour,” let’s examine at some of the ways in which you can transfer data between SQL Server databases.

This overview includes:

  • Ad hoc querying external SQL Server instances
  • SQL Server linked servers
  • Bulk loading of data from one SQL Server database to another SQL Server database
  • Loading data from older versions of SQL Server into SQL Server ...

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