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SQL Server Tutorial: Part 1- Automation with Stored Procedures: Automate Backup,Restore, Copy with Stored Procedures

   Chapter: Automating SQL Server: SQL Server Agent, Jobs, Email, Alerts and Scheduling
Download! Skill Level: 200 (Beginner - Intermediate)
Duration: 11:45
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Versions/Editions Covered: SQL Server - All Versions
Added/Updated: Jun 25, 2008

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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:

  • Building a backup database stored procedure from scratch
    • Requirements
  • About using SYSNAME
  • How to set required/default parameters
  • Two types of parameters with stored procedures
    • Inputs
    • Input Output
and much more
Tags for this video: automate automation backup copy database restore Stored procedure  
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This video is part of the following video series: "Automation Via Stored Procedures: Backup, Copy, and Restore"
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

 

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About the Instructor:
Scott Whigham Scott Whigham is the founder of LearnItFirst.com, one of the web's most extensive video training libraries focusing on technical training. Scott is also an experienced consultant, trainer, and author with more than a decade of hands-on experience working with SQL Server databases, writing and debugging applications using Visual Studio, and performance tuning. Scott designed the architecture (websites, class libraries, and database) for the LearnItFirst.com websites and, most re... (Scott Whigham's full bio can be found on the About the Author page)

   
 
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