106 I've been too lax with performing DB backups on our internal servers. Is there a simple command line program that I can use to backup certain databases in SQL Server 2005? Or is there a simple VBScript?
Use SQL Server's Generate Scripts commend right click on the database; Tasks -> Generate Scripts select your tables, click Next click the Advanced button find Types of data to script - choose Schema and Data. you can then choose to save to file, or put in new query window. results in CREATE and INSERT statements for all table data selected in bullet 2.
Some third-party backup programs, for example: EMS SQL Backup, allow setting templates for backup file names. Timestamp, server instance name, database names and other info can be added to file name.
SQL Backup Master has the ability to back up all databases on a given server instance and then send the backups to Dropbox, FTP, Amazon S3, Google Drive, or local/network folder.
Script to check the Backup and Restore progress in SQL Server: Many times it happens that your backup (or restore) activity has been started by another Database Administrator or by a job, and you cannot use the GUI anything else to check the progress of that Backup / Restore. By combining multiple commands, I have generated below script which can give us a summary of current backups and ...
I'm not very fluent with SQL Server commands. I need a script to restore a database from a .bak file and move the logical_data and logical_log files to a specific path. I can do: restore filelis...
It's batch file to make a sql server express database backup and keep the last 10 backups (auto remove old). It should be use with windows scheduler to make it automatic perform periodically.
RESTORE DATABASE DB_Clients FROM DISK = 'C:\OldDBClients.bak' WITH REPLACE, MOVE 'YourMDFLogicalName' TO '<MDF file path>', MOVE 'YourLDFLogicalName' TO '<LDF file path>' Please note that you can also DROP your empty DB_Clients database and use a simple RESTORE.
