This post was authored by Tara Raj and Vinson Yu, Program Managers – SQL Server Team We are excited to announce the public preview availability of two new command line tools for SQL Server: The ...

This package allows you to seed the data to SQL Server database using pure T-SQL scripts but in a managed fashion similar to Entity Framework Core migrations. It makes your scripts part of the project ...

This simple tool solves a very annoying problem of Management Studio: Open HUGE script files. Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio opens the entire file into memory, and this can be a problem if ...

Select "File" from the drop-down menu, then click the "Add" button. A file explorer window appears. Navigate to the BAK file, select it, and click "Open" to add the file to the backup medium.

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.

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 ...

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