Posey's Tips & Tricks. Using PowerShell To Back Up SQL Server Express Edition. By Brien Posey; 06/13/2025; For as long as I can remember, I have always configured the computers within my own ...

Arthur Fuller recounts his less-than-smooth installation of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and offers a few suggestions based on what he learned along the way.

Click the name of your SQL server in the Object Explorer pane to expose your databases. Select "user databases," then right-click the name of the database you want to restore (Source 1).

“SQL Server Express is a version of SQL Server you can use for dev/test and Web and mobile apps with lightweight relational database needs,” stated the company in a Feb. 12 blog post.