Hi

I was just curious on what the quickest way anyone can recommend for sending an entire database would be. For example, at the moment if we have an issue with a database and we need a copy of the data we will transfer the database via their internet connection to a 3rd party website or through a terminal session, etc... But some datasets are obviously quite large so even compressing and sending can take a while to receive. Now i have looked at the database reverse engineering feature, which would be great because its a much smaller text file, but this seems to be a bit slow with all the inserts it needs to complete to reinsert the data again. Is there a way to speed this up or an alternative solution?

Hope that makes sense

<< I was just curious on what the quickest way anyone can recommend for
sending an entire database would be. For example, at the moment if we have
an issue with a database and we need a copy of the data we will transfer the
database via their internet connection to a 3rd party website or through a
terminal session, etc... But some datasets are obviously quite large so even
compressing and sending can take a while to receive. Now i have looked at
the database reverse engineering feature, which would be great because its a
much smaller text file, but this seems to be a bit slow with all the inserts
it needs to complete to reinsert the data again. Is there a way to speed
this up or an alternative solution? >>

The best, and fastest, way to do this is via the built-in backup/restore.
It's compressed, very quick, and will blow the doors off of trying to do
reverse-engineering since it's a binary image instead of a textual one.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com