Database tasks
Last modified: July 22, 2025
This section describes how to manage SQL Server databases using dbForge Studio. It covers key database lifecycle operations—including attaching and detaching databases, creating new databases, copying existing ones—and other essential database management tasks.
In this section
- Attach a database
- Detach a database
- Create a database
- Copy a database
- Back up a database
- Restore a database
- Generate a database script
- Create a scripts folder or a snapshot
- Take a SQL Server database online and offline
- Analyze and optimize indexes
- View index scan results
- Export index scan results to a CSV file
- Fix indexes
- Analyze indexes from the command line
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