Copy tables from one database to another in SQL Server

SQL Server Management Studio's "Import Data" task (right-click on the DB name, then tasks) will do most of this for you. Run it from the database you want to copy the data into.

If the tables don't exist it will create them for you, but you'll probably have to recreate any indexes and such. If the tables do exist, it will append the new data by default but you can adjust that (edit mappings) so it will delete all existing data.

I use this all the time and it works fairly well.

On SQL Server? and on the same database server? Use three part naming.

INSERT INTO bar..tblFoobar( *fieldlist* )SELECT *fieldlist* FROM foo..tblFoobar

This just moves the data. If you want to move the table definition (and other attributes such as permissions and indexes), you'll have to do something else.

This should work:

SELECT * INTO DestinationDB..MyDestinationTable FROM SourceDB..MySourceTable 

It will not copy constraints, defaults or indexes. The table created will not have a clustered index.

Alternatively you could:

INSERT INTO DestinationDB..MyDestinationTable SELECT * FROM SourceDB..MySourceTable

If your destination table exists and is empty.