What’s New in SQL Server Command-Line Utilities

The SQL Server command-line utilities available in SQL Server 2014 are basically the same as those offered with SQL Server 2012. Functionality related to Azure SQL Database administration has been added to a few utilities, detailed in the following sections of this chapter. Overall, very little has changed in the syntax, and batch files or scripts you have used with these utilities in the past should continue to work unchanged.

One command-line utility has been added in SQL Server 2014, however, and some have been removed or deprecated. The sqllocaldb utility was new to SQL Server 2012. This utility is used to create and manage an instance of the Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Express LocalDB. This ...

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