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I want to create a job that runs every night. I have a database (MyDatabase) that I want to copy/replace my staging database with (MyDatabase_Stage).
I presume the easiest way is to do something related to SQL Server Agent, but I have never done anything like this before. What is the best practice and easiest route to go to get this setup and tested?
I do not care if the data is 24 hours old and the most important criteria is that is does a full copy every night at the same time.
copy the .bak file to your staging server and restore from there using a script.
Run the script on a schedule in an agent job.
The benefit of a script is that you can add functionality later – for instance you might not require audit tables and these can be truncated.