From the course: SQL Server 2016: Administer a Database Infrastructure
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Automate and test restores - SQL Server Tutorial
From the course: SQL Server 2016: Administer a Database Infrastructure
Automate and test restores
- [Instructor] When a production database is live, you probably want to avoid working in it as you develop new features and enhance procedures. You'll most likely create a duplicate testing server that will act as your develop playground. However, it would be nice to have a regular update with live data so that your development or test server work mirrors the production server as closely as possible. We can do that by creating a backup of the production database and restoring it to a testing database. As a bonus, the process can be automated using the SQL server agent. Let's dig in to how this will work. First, we'll create a new database called production DB. Then just to make sure, we'll set its recovery mode to full. Next we're going to populate it with a table and some records. We'll create a schema called warehouse, we'll create a table called warehouse.newproducts and we'll add in some products. Now that we have a table with three product lines, let's go ahead and create a…
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