How to Restore a SQL Database From a .MDF File. Computer database software such as Microsoft's SQL Server benefits all types of businesses, as it makes recordkeeping fast, flexible and secure. SQL ...

Now that you’ve automated the fetching of your flat file via FTP, the next step is to automatically import that file into SQL Server. To do this, we’ll use an SQL Server Agent Job.

SQL Server 2005's Management Studio offers lots of new functionality, but you can't always use a GUI. Sometimes you need to run a script from the command line, especially for an upgrade or install ...

Even now, a full workstation backup seems like overkill. As I have recently discovered though, you can use a PowerShell script to back up a SQL Server Express database.

Microsoft offers the tool as part of the Microsoft SQL Server Feature Pack, or you can download just the Provider installation file.