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Asked: 2026-05-10T17:18:03+00:00

I need to copy some records from our SQLServer 2005 test server to our

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I need to copy some records from our SQLServer 2005 test server to our live server. It’s a flat lookup table, so no foreign keys or other referential integrity to worry about.

I could key-in the records again on the live server, but this is tiresome. I could export the test server records and table data in its entirety into an SQL script and run that, but I don’t want to overwrite the records present on the live system, only add to them.

How can I select just the records I want and get them transferred or otherwise into the live server? We don’t have Sharepoint, which I understand would allow me to copy them directly between the two instances.

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  1. If your production SQL server and test SQL server can talk, you could just do in with a SQL insert statement.

    first run the following on your test server:

    Execute sp_addlinkedserver PRODUCTION_SERVER_NAME

    Then just create the insert statement:

    INSERT INTO [PRODUCTION_SERVER_NAME].DATABASE_NAME.dbo.TABLE_NAME   (Names_of_Columns_to_be_inserted) SELECT Names_of_Columns_to_be_inserted FROM TABLE_NAME
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