I’ve done it again. re-invented the wheel… uhm, no. But I did create a tool to create and set up a new sql server database from scripts that can be launched from the command line. This could be useful if you must automate the process of setting up a test database each time you need to run a new set of tests.<\/p>\n
It works like this (coomand line options)<\/p>\n
Usage: CreateSqlDBHelper.exe <server> <database> <data files path> <-d> <script1.sql [script2.sql …]>
\nWhere
\n-d : drop database first<\/p>\n
This allows you to specify a sql server\/instance name, database name, path where the database files will be located plus any number of sql script files that needs to be run to set up a new database. Typically you’ll start by running scripts that will create tables, views, sprocs and also initial data rows etc. Optionally the tool can first ‘drop’ the existing database (but for now that requires a manual press ‘Y’ step). It makes use of the .Net 4.0 client framework plus SQL server SMO libraries – which come with SQL server…<\/p>\n
You can find a copy of the tool here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve done it again. re-invented the wheel… uhm, no. But I did create a tool to create and set up a new sql server database from scripts that can be launched from the command line. This could be useful if …<\/p>\n