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Asked: 2026-06-16T04:58:16+00:00

I’m working on a project that has to be turned in tomorrow. For this

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I’m working on a project that has to be turned in tomorrow. For this project I use a SQL Server Express database running on a remote server.

Now, I need to generate a .mdf file from the remote database. I have searched everywhere, and I can not find a proper solution.

I have scripted the database to a .sql file, but I can’t find a way of executing it against a local .mdf file. Either I can create a .sdf which will not work, or connect to a database engine.

Help will be greatly appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    .mdf is the SQL Server’s datafile format.

    So you need to these steps:

    1. connect to your local server
    2. create a new database
    3. run the .sql script against it
    4. detach that database

    Now, after all the steps, you can copy the resulting .mdf file from the SQL Server data directory to somewhere else.

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