Re: two databases in one

Thanks for your response.

Indeed , the serials are used as foreign keys.

We made a web site with a database. Then we duplicated the web site and
the databse (without data, only schéma) for another server .
The 2 databases were filled in the same time.

Now someone would like to merge the 2 databases and have only 1 site and
1 database.
I was thinking about changing serials of the 2nd database and do a
restore on the 1st, as you said.
But it's a big database, and i'm not sure of the exactly things to do.



Ben K. a écrit :
>> I've got two databases with the same tables and schema on two
>> different servers.
>> I want to have only one database.
>> So i would like to insert in the first database the data of the
>> second database.
>> I don't know how to do this because almost of the tables contains
>> serial.
>> It's for production databases, i can't make mistakes.
>
> Maybe you could just import the second database into another schema of
> the first database if it's urgent...
>
> Otherwise the nature of conflicts will have to be thought through, like
>
> - Are there some data that exist in both databases - i.e. which become
> duplicates if both tables are merged?
>
> - Are the serials used as foreign keys in other tables or as the basis
> of any other fields?
>
> - Can the serials be changed to different numbers - e.g., is it ok or
> even needed to convert "11" on database B to "10011" on database A and
> so on, to avoid conflict two ID 11 records having different data?
>
> - Does the order of records matter?
>
>
> Once the problem is familiar, many gurus will be able to help. I just
> wanted to provide a starter.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Ben K.
> Developer
> http://benix.tamu.edu
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