Question

In a webapp I am building, I have a requirement in which I need to backup and restore around 10-15 tables from a SQL Server database.

My solution..

-Backup: For each table, Fill a dataset , serialize that to a file

-Restore: Deserialize the file into a dataset and use SQLBulkCopy

Is this the best was to achieve my goal?

Answer 1

You need to make sure you consider the following.

1. What happens when the schema changes? How do you upgrade the data?
2. If any of the tables have identity columns you need to make sure you wack on identity insert before loading up the data.
3. Watch out for triggers, they may or may not be fired during your bulk loading depending on your settings.