Theo Ekelmans

  • Interests: SQL, Hardware... especially if it comes in TBs, Anything written by Sir Terry Patchett, IOT, dabbeling in C#...... aaaand, ill stop here :)

Technical Article

Version independent spGetBackupDateFromFile

This is an version independent stored procedure to get the backup date from a backup file.

It's tested for SQL 2005, 2008(R2), 2012 and 2014.

Consider it a template to which you can add more output parameters from the headerinfo to meet your requirements.

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2016-04-21 (first published: )

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