Question

i am doing sql server backups like this in script:

BACKUP DATABASE databasename TO DISK = `path'

since this backup is going to be automated, how do i insert today’s date into 'path' ?

Answer 1

declare @path varchar(255), @mydb varchar(50)
SELECT @mydb = 'MyDBToBackUp'
select @path = 'C:\foo\bar\' + @mydb + '-' + convert(varchar(8),getdate(),112) + '.bak'
BACKUP DATABASE @mydb TO @path

BACKUP DATABASE takes local variables

Edit: last line should be this: Oops. Sorry.

 BACKUP DATABASE @mydb TO DISK =  @path