As I have recently discovered though, you can use a PowerShell script to back up a SQL Server Express database. Before I show you how to perform such a backup, there are a few things that you ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

If you’ve got several sources of data that you need to get into a database ... steps to automate an FTP download in Windows followed by a CSV insert into MS SQL Server. Step one is to fetch ...

I created a copy of the database on the remote server and generated a SQL script to TRUNCATE all the tables in the copy database as shown in Listing 1. After a quick backup of the newly cleaned ...

Be sure that you have the right server connection and the right database selected in SQL Management Studio before running it. Finally, be sure to back up the database before running the script, just ...