![]() ![]() 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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