Reputation: 537
I have a .sql
file. How can I convert this .sql
file to a .mdf
SQL Server database file?
I know that .sql
file is nothing but a script file if I open the .sql
file in notepad it will show me the db code I can simply copy those code and paste into SQL Server Management Studio.
Is there any other way to convert .sql
to .mdf
file?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 3308
Reputation: 13334
Unless your SQL file contains the script to create a database, your question wouldn't make any sense. If it does contain such script you need an environment to execute it. There are many tools that will allow you to do that. For example, many IDE
tools that integrate with SQL Server have such capability.
So to answer your question: it is impossible to convert SQL
file to MDF
. You, however, can sometimes use an SQL
file to build MDF
.
Upvotes: 4