![]() The minimal backup instruction would be this:īACKUP DATABASE YourDatabase TO DISK = ' YourDatabase.bak' The BACKUP command has as many option as the Backup Dialog in SSMS, but for backing up a SQL Express database you are probably going to need basic options only. To use SQL Server’s integrated backup features without any UI-interaction, you simply execute the BACKUP command in Transact-SQL. SQLCMD can connect to a SQL Server instance and enables you to execute any SQL command or even a SQL Script file from the command line. The universal tool to access a SQL Server Instance from a Task Scheduler task is the very useful command line client SQLCMD. Unfortunately, this utility does not work with SQL Express. This would have enabled us to create a backup directly from the command line or from Task Scheduler. My first idea was to use the neat command line maintenance utility of SQL Server (sqlmaint.exe). The obvious solution to scheduling anything on a Windows computer is Windows Task Scheduler, which comes with any edition of Microsoft Windows since Windows 98. So, unless your database in SQL Express is only a replication of a database that lives on a “big server” somewhere else and is regularly backed up on that other server, you need to think about backing up your data from day one. And, according to Murphy’s Law, that will be day before something catastrophic happens to your database. Manual backup for production data is not an option. What you can’t do with SQL Express is schedule your backups to be run automatically, neither via the UI nor via SQL Scripts. It’s missing SQL Agent, SQL Server’s scheduling component to run automatic tasks, including automatic backups of your databases.Īs SQL Express supports the backup features of SQL Server, you can do manual backups in SQL Server Management Studio exactly the same way as you would do with a “Full” Edition of SQL Server. SQL Express is missing one critical component you are going to need if you are hosting a workgroup of small business database on it. SQL Server and especially its Express Edition is the natural upgrade path for a plain Access database, which has outgrown Access in size, concurrent users, and/or data security requirements. Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition is the free edition of Microsoft’s SQL Server. If you never dealt with SQL Server backups before, I strongly recommend you go back to the previous article on the theory of SQL Server backups and read it first. If you are familiar with SQL-Server-Backups and just want to know how to implement an automatic backup of your SQL Server Express Database without SQL Agent, just read on. This is the second part of a three-part series. By Philipp Stiefel, originally published February 9 th, 2017īased on a photo by Cz_Miki, used here under CC0 licensing ![]()
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