Question

Is it possible to take backup of database with stored procedure using Sql Server 2005/2008 ?
What is the stored procedure for it…and what would be the scenarios where my project required to create such procedure in my project?
front end language will be C#.Net and backend is sql server.
Can anybody guide me in this… Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

You can create your own stored procedure:

CREATE PROCEDURE sp_MyBackup
AS BEGIN
  BACKUP DATABASE myDatabase to disk='c:\BACKUP\myDatabase.bak'
END

and then you can execute this procedure from your T-SQL code:

exec sp_MyBackup

EDIT:
to execute your stored proceure in c#, you need do something like that:

SqlConnection c= new SqlConection ( connectionstring );
c.Open();
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand ("sp_MyBackup", c);
cmd.CommadType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
c.Close();

EDIT AGAIN: I think, front-end Application can use SP to create backups to realize next scenario: Before mass-update operation (import of data, mass-cleaning etc) user can start backup from application. In this case user does not need the appropriate sql-server and database rights, he must not have any databse tools and sql knowledge, but backup can be done.