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How to Get Estimated Completion Time of SQL Server Database Backup OR Restore

“How much time SQL Server is going to take to complete the database Backup or Restore” – This is one of the very common questions DBAs face in day to day life when they are performing database refresh activity, database migration activity, or any adhoc activity…

29 December 2017

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How to Backup and Restore NAV Database Using SQL Server

Data is one of the most valuable assets of any company. To ensure you keep your data safe, database backups are essential. After the release of NAV 2013 R2, Microsoft discontinued the NAV Database backup (.fbk) feature. An additional option was added to allow for import/export…

21 June 2017

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Backup one company – the best kept secret in Dynamics NAV 2015

Today my customer Thomas Ditlev from ACO Nordic asked me to bring a backup of the data in a database to a colleague, nothing new about that. I totally lost my cool, when he started the backup functionality inside Dynamics NAV, exported the data and saved…

10 March 2016

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

NAV 2013 R2: How to Back up a Live Database and Refresh a Test Database

If you have a test database, at some point in time you will be asked to refresh this with the current live data, especially when testing. I am often asked how to copy the live database into the test database so accurate testing of a development…

12 October 2015

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Automate backup on SQL Express and Send Mail Powershell Script

Solution to automate backup on SQL Express and send mail based on first Microsoft SQL BackupScript “sp_SQLBackupDatabases”. Bron : Roberto Stefanetti NAV Blog Lees meer...

30 September 2015

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

How to Back Up and Restore a Dynamics NAV 2015 Database Using SQL and PowerShell

Several weeks before our customer’s go-live of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015, users were vigorously testing NAV as we were ironing out the specifics of the customer’s desired configurations. During this process, we wanted to start with a clean testing environment (where we wanted to use the…

17 August 2015

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

How to Back Up and Restore Companies in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015

The ability to backup and restore a company has been added back into NAV 2015. This capability was lost when 2013 was released and the “Classic Client” was discontinued. Losing this capability made it more difficult to make a copy of a company in order to…

26 June 2015