Been Googling this for awhile and no answer....can anyone help?
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For SQL Server 2008, I would imagine the procedure is similar...?
Not sure why they removed the option to just right click on the database and restore like you could in SQL Server Management Studio 2008 and earlier, but as mentioned above you can restore from a .BAK
file with:
RESTORE DATABASE YourDB FROM DISK = 'D:BackUpYourBaackUpFile.bak' WITH REPLACE
But you will want WITH REPLACE
instead of WITH RESTORE
if your moving it from one server to another.
Using the RESTORE DATABASE
command most likely. bak
is a common extension used for a database backup file. You'll find documentation for this command on MSDN.
.bak
is a backup file generated in SQL Server.
Backup files importing means restoring a database, you can restore on a database created in SQL Server 2012 but the backup file should be from SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 database.
You restore database by using following command...
RESTORE DATABASE YourDB FROM DISK = 'D:BackUpYourBaackUpFile.bak' WITH Recovery
You want to learn about how to restore .bak
file follow the below link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186858(v=sql.90).aspx
You can use the following script if you don't wish to use Wizard;
RESTORE DATABASE myDB
FROM DISK = N'C:\BackupDB.bak'
WITH REPLACE,RECOVERY,
MOVE N'HRNET' TO N'C:\MSSQL\Data\myDB.mdf',
MOVE N'HRNET_LOG' TO N'C:\MSSQL\Data\myDB.ldf'
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