To back up my SQL Azure database periodically I have been using the simple tSQL statement
CREATE DATABASE FiveModes10_12_12 AS COPY OF FiveModes
But for this project (analysing some experimental results) my database is a local SQL Server 2012 one and I cannot run that statement (I get the error Incorrect syntax near 'COPY'
). Looking at the documentation for the CREATE DATABASE
command for SQL Server 2012 there is no AS COPY OF
option. What is the simplest alternative?