{"id":3408,"date":"2011-09-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.simple-talk.com\/uncategorized\/sql-azure-backup-and-the-command-line\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:50:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:50:34","slug":"sql-azure-backup-and-the-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/sql-azure-backup-and-the-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Azure Backup and the Command Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SQL Azure has no scheduling capabilities at all. If you want to schedule something like, oh, I don&#8217;t know, a backup, you need to use SQL Agent or some other utility. In order to make that work, you need to use a command line. I&#8217;ve recorded a video on how I set up a SQL Agent job to run PowerShell scripts to backup my SQL Azure database. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NDksgba3_hA\">Check it out.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For an even better presentation on how to do this, go over to <a href=\"http:\/\/tjaybelt.blogspot.com\">TJay Belt&#8217;s blog<\/a> and read several of his posts. He lays it out much better than my videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SQL Azure has no scheduling capabilities at all. If you want to schedule something like, oh, I don&#8217;t know, a backup, you need to use SQL Agent or some other utility. In order to make that work, you need to use a command line. I&#8217;ve recorded a video on how I set up a SQL&#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25371,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions\/25371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}