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

Type in the full name of the .MDF file, including the full device and directory path, as the following example illustrates:c:\data files\my_data.mdfClick the "OK" button. SQL Server Management ...

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.