FileTables, a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012, is a unique table that reflects metadata of files in a specified folder.

Now that you’ve automated the fetching of your flat file via FTP, the next step is to automatically import that file into SQL Server. To do this, we’ll use an SQL Server Agent Job.

However, SQL Server data files (MDF and NDF) can get inaccessible due to a variety of reasons and paralyze all business operations. What can be done, if there is no backup of the corrupt database ...