I have a .sql file I need to enter in to my database, but I can't find how to do it.
I'm using SQL Server Management Studio R2, but haven't found any options on how to add it.
When I try to attach it, I'm told that this file isn't a primary database file, so I can't do it...
EDIT: okay, I had the script execute. That worked.
A .SQL file is a script file that contain SQL commands. To run those commands you need to go to the menu: FILE, then OPEN and FILE..., browse and select the .SQL file and it will open it, you can then run it (F5). Make sure the current database is the one where you want those commands to occur within.
A .sql file is a script, not a database.
Will this work for you?
In Management Studio, click on menu File -> Open -> File -> navigate to the file.
After the file has opened, you can click F5 to run the SQL.
A .sql file is usually a script (DML, DDL, other commands) which can be run against a database. It may create objects, databases, add or remove data. You can open it (File...Open) in SSMS (or view it in any text editor) and then execute it (after carefully reviewing the script).
File->Open, browse to the file, load it. Make sure the right database is selected in the drop-down box above the editor. F5 to execute.
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I'm looking for a way to script out an entire SQL Server 2015 database to write table creation scripts, stored procedure scripts, triggers, etc etc to a folder so I can set a baseline for a TFS repository solution. Apart from manually exporting each script one by one, is there a way to do a bulk export?
Obviously I'm not talking about data here, I'm talking strictly about exporting creation SQL file scripts to a folder for a single database.
Please try with SQL Server Management Studio.
To open the Generate and Publish Scripts Wizard. In Object Explorer, expand Databases, right-click a database, point to Tasks, and then click Generate Scripts. Follow the steps in the wizard to script the database objects. On the Choose Objects page, select the objects to be included in the script.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178078(v=sql.105).aspx
you can generate sql scripts in ssms by following steps:
Right Click on the Database
Go to task and then Click on "Generate Scripts..."
follow the wizard steps to create scripts
I have exported database from Oracle SQL developer tool into .sql file. Now I want to run this file which is of size 500+ MB.
I read about running scripts here, but I didn't understand the way. Is there any command or query by which we can run this sql script by providing path?
You could execute the .sql file as a script in the SQL Developer worksheet. Either use the Run Script icon, or simply press F5.
For example,
#path\script.sql;
Remember, you need to put # as shown above.
But, if you have exported the database using database export utility of SQL Developer, then you should use the Import utility. Follow the steps mentioned here Importing and Exporting using the Oracle SQL Developer 3.0
You need to Open the SQL Developer first and then click on File option and browse to the location where your .sql is placed. Once you are at the location where file is placed double click on it, this will get the file open in SQL Developer. Now select all of the content of file (CTRL + A) and press F9 key. Just make sure there is a commit statement at the end of the .sql script so that the changes are persisted in the database
You can use Load function
Load TableName fullfilepath;
I have a .sql file. How can I convert this .sql file to a .mdf SQL Server database file?
I know that .sql file is nothing but a script file if I open the .sql file in notepad it will show me the db code I can simply copy those code and paste into SQL Server Management Studio.
Is there any other way to convert .sql to .mdf file?
Unless your SQL file contains the script to create a database, your question wouldn't make any sense. If it does contain such script you need an environment to execute it. There are many tools that will allow you to do that. For example, many IDE tools that integrate with SQL Server have such capability.
So to answer your question: it is impossible to convert SQL file to MDF. You, however, can sometimes use an SQL file to build MDF.
I have a SQL Server database for which I want to generate script of data as well as schema both. I tried Tasks -> Generate Scripts -> Script all objects in the selected database but it does not give the .sql for the data itself.
How do we generate the .sql database for both data as well schema? Please suggest some easy method such as a tool or something that can be used easily
Backing up/Exporting database
There are two ways to Back up/Export a SQL Server database using SQL Server Management Studio:
Right click database → Tasks → Generate Scripts → Choose DB → Change “Script Data” option to true → …
Right click database → Tasks → Backup → ...
The first method creates a .sql file that then we need to run. The problem with this method is that the .sql file can be too big to be opened with SQL Server Management Studio. In that case we need to use the sqlcmd utility (should be already installed if we have SQL Server MS). Instructions below.
The second method creates a .back file that is then easy to import into an empty database.
Importing Database
If we have a .sql file and it’s not too big we can just open it with SQL Server MS and run it.
If we have a .sql file but it’s too big to be opened with SQL Server MS we have to use sqlcmd like this:
>sqlcmd -i C:\panels_QA28July11.sql -o C:\PanelsImportResult.txt
The parameter after -i is the file to import. The parameter after -o is where to save the output. We can omit the second parameter if we want to see the process on the screen.
By default it will use the local machine and local database server. If we want to use a different machine and server we use the -S option.
Right Click on db => Tasks => Generate Scripts => In "Set Scripting Options: Click Advanced, find Types of data to script. You can choose between Data only, Script and data and Schema only. The default is Schema only
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I have a database that was given to me, but is in a file format (.sql). I want to open it in my SQL Server, but I don't know how, because it says i need a .mdf file?
Can someone help?
Open up the .sql file - if it contains SQL code in plain text, you have most likely received the database as a create script. Run it in SQL Server Management Studio.
A .sql file is (usually) just a series of SQL commands that you execute on the SQL server using your preferred GUI or CLI. Try opening it in Notepad to see what I mean.
Click on the data base.
Right click displays drop down menu.
Select execute SQL file.
Search for your .SQL file
Click on start button
Click close.
Press F5.
.Sql file is just a random file holding some SQL queries. While .mdf and .ldf are Microsoft SQL Server Database files which hold an entire database.
Run your file in SQL Server Management Studio.