small problem and hopefully you dudes named ben have a neat trick.

I've some great SQL scripts i built on my work machine h/e i'd like to have this documentation on my personal computer. is there a neat trick to transfer the scripts over without too much work knowledge or are my hands going to need to be the computer-to-computer clipboard in this case? just don't want to leave a solid trace in doing this.

@greyknight I take it USB drives aren't an option? Do you have internet access on site? Airgapped networks? SCIF?

@RegalBeagle USB is totally an option h/e can the work machine track that a db image was transferred via USB? i doubt they'll catch that but if it comes up, just want to be armed. figure an invisible impression is the best approach. avoids a potential painful conversation

@greyknight USB is the least likely to be detected and easiest. If you're exporting an entire DB, that's going to be very noticeable over the network unless you're going to do a lot of work obfuscating traffic.

Depending on how quickly you need to move thing, I'd do a test run with a USB moving something non-critical, wait a week or so and see if you get a visit from security. If nothing happens, go for the transfer.

If you have a disk drive, burning a CD may be an option, too.

@RegalBeagle good point! actually, copying the script into notepad then moving that file would obfuscate further. taking an image seems a little too explicit, plus its a T-SQL db and i'm transposing into MySQL.

i've copied files before via USB and never got contacted, just thinking if there's an undetectable option. saves me being the clipboard lol.

i could burn a dvd, got an external one i can plug in via USB. less detectable than a USB drive?

@greyknight If it's a USB DVD drive, it's logically a USB drive to the PC and would be detected the same way.

Nothing is undetectable, is just how hard people are willing to look.

If you're worried about clipboard history, after the transfer, copy/paste a bunch of stuff over an over again to flush the buffer and any history. You'd have to look on your machine what those settings and values are before it cycles out old entries, but that's probably overkill.