Import SQL File to SQL Server: Step-by-Step

1 year ago
William Carter
1 minute

To import an external SQL file into a SQL Server database, you can follow these steps:

  1. Open the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) tool.
  2. Connect to the database instance where the SQL file needs to be imported.
  3. Select the “File” menu in SSMS, then choose “Open” -> “File”, and in the popup window select the SQL file you want to import.
  4. Then click the “Execute” button, SSMS will execute all SQL statements in the SQL file.

Alternatively, if the SQL file is large or contains a lot of SQL statements, you can use command-line tools like sqlcmd to import the SQL file. You can execute a command similar to the following in the command line:

sqlcmd -S ServerName -d DatabaseName -U Username -P Password -i C:\Path\To\Your\SQL\File.sql

ServerName represents the name of the database instance, DatabaseName is the name of the database to be imported, Username and Password are the login credentials for the database, and the -i parameter specifies the path of the SQL file to be imported.

By following the steps above, you can import external SQL files into your SQL Server database.

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