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Automation Via Stored Procedures: Backup, Copy, and Restore (Video Series)

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Skill Level: 300 (Intermediate)

Versions/Editions Covered: SQL Server - All Versions
As a database administrator, you often have to copy a database, restore a database, or backup a database. These monotonous tasks, however, can basically be done for you via automation with stored procedures by simply passing a few parameters. In this video series your instructor Scott will not only show you how to create these stored procedures, but he will also talk about the things that are used in creating the stored procedures that will do backups, copy a database, and/or restore a database. In this first video in the series, Scott will walk you through the process of creating a stored procedure that will backup a database, a very essential maintenance task.

Highlights from this video series:

  • Building a backup database stored procedure from scratch
    • Requirements
  • The problem with the default of appending backup files
    • How to overwrite existing backup files
  • Various date formats for generate a filename
  • Setting a TimeString and CONVERT process
  •  Setting the path for the backup file
  • Obtaining the logical file names
  • Required parameters for the copy database stored procedure
  • Demo of backup/restore/copy procedures

 

Videos in this Series:


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