# Need someone to help me import old forum members and topics!

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-someone-to-help-me-import-old-forum-members-and-topics/38450
**Category:** Marketplace
**Created:** [25 בינואר,‏ 2016,‏ 1:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-someone-to-help-me-import-old-forum-members-and-topics/38450 "2016-01-25T13:48:08Z")
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### Author: ![AdamW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@AdamW](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AdamW)
#### Post date: [25 בינואר,‏ 2016,‏ 1:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-someone-to-help-me-import-old-forum-members-and-topics/38450/1 "2016-01-25T13:48:08Z")

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I know nothing about the system on which Discourse is designed. I would love it if someone could help me import data from a forum that has its info stored in SQL Server into my Discourse instance. I have over 10 years worth of data and don’t want to lose it.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks!

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### Author: ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [25 בינואר,‏ 2016,‏ 8:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-someone-to-help-me-import-old-forum-members-and-topics/38450/2 "2016-01-25T20:47:09Z")

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Hi AdamW welcome to the forum

It should be helpful if you say what forum the “old forum” is 😉

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### Author: ![AdamW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@AdamW](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AdamW)
#### Post date: [25 בינואר,‏ 2016,‏ 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-someone-to-help-me-import-old-forum-members-and-topics/38450/3 "2016-01-25T20:57:20Z")

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It is a custom forum I built over a decade ago using Classic ASP & SQL Server, so it is running on Windows Server. It has common forum properties, like members, forum categories, sub categories, topics, etc.

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### Author: ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [25 בינואר,‏ 2016,‏ 9:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-someone-to-help-me-import-old-forum-members-and-topics/38450/4 "2016-01-25T21:06:28Z")

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Discourse is Ruby and Postgres, so these may not be much help, but assuming you have some dev chops

> [@AdamW](#):
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> a custom forum I built

Maybe you can pick somethings out of what already exists

> **[discourse/script/import\_scripts at main · discourse/discourse](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/main/script/import_scripts)**
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> main/script/import\_scripts

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### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [24 בפברואר,‏ 2016,‏ 1:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-someone-to-help-me-import-old-forum-members-and-topics/38450/5 "2016-02-24T13:54:07Z")

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