>I need to "move" a bunch of databases from one computer to another. I have created backup of all databases to an external drive. That is, the external drive now has several .BAK files. Do I need to create the databases on the target computer before I can restore from the .BAK files? Or can I restore and create database from .BAK in one step?
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>TIA
In order to write a script that would restore all databases from a certain folder - without hard-coding each database name - I would need to scan all files with extension *.BAK. How can I create a cursor and scan all files from a folder into the cursor (using T-SQL)?
Or is there a better way to approach the task?
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