Running my first Angular project from Visual Studio Code

In this post I will explain how to setup the environment for Angular by listing the steps I have setup my first Angular project with Visual Studio Code. I start with a sample project downloaded from GitHub project Angular-GettingStarted by Deborah Kurata. Lets follow these steps:

• Download and install Visual Studio Code from https://code.visualstudio.com/
• In order to install required packages we will use npm (Node Package Manager). So download and install npm from https://nodejs.org/en/download/.
• Download and extract the project from github.
• From VS Code terminal, check if you have successfully installed npm by issuing simple command like npm -v. It will give you installed npm version number, like 6.4.1
• Issue the following command from VS Code terminal to install Angular CLI.

      npm install -g @angular/cli
     

  After installing Angular CLI we have to setup following two directory paths in Environment PATH variable.
  • C:\Users\YOUR-USER\AppData\Roaming\npm
  • C:\Users\YOUR-USER\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\@angular\cli\bin
• Run following command to install dev dependency package introduced in Angular 6.0

     npm install --save-dev @angular-devkit/build-angular
    

• Now you can run the project by issuing the npm start command.

      npm start
     

  After successful compilation, it will open the website with the default browser window on localhost.

We have setup the development environment for Angular. I hope this helps some of you who get stuck with a similar problem.

Take SQL Server database backup using batch file

In this post, I will share the script to take SQL database backup from batch file. There may be scenarios where you want to automate SQL database backups, in that case this script will be useful. Although there is SQL Server Agent feature available which helps you to automate and perform different set of powerful tasks including database backups. But at times you may need a custom solution like a batch file which could take the backup.

We will use sqlcmd command for this purpose. Following are the parameters we need to pass to sqlcmd.

• -S (server name)
• -U (user name)
• -P (password)
• -d (database name)
• -Q (query)

In our script we will first define the parameter's values required to connect the desired database server. These are server, dataBase, user and password.

Next we will define variable targetPath, declaring the target folder path where we want to save the backup file.

These are the 5 variables we need to pass as arguments to sqlcmd.

Often we prefer to add timestamp in backup file name. To add current date/time stamp in file name please refer to my last post Get date-time value to string variable in batch file. However I want to keep this post simple, so I am not using timestamp string sufix in filename for this example.

Here is the final script:

:: Off commands display
@echo off

:: This batch file create backup for SQL Server Database
:: Written by Muhammad Idrees


:: set database connection parameters
:: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:: Your server name. I am using server name 'MyServer'
SET server=MyServer

:: Your database name. I am using database name 'MyDatabase'
SET dataBase=MyDatabase

:: Your database-server's user name. My user name is 'sa'
SET user=sa

:: Your database-server's password. My password is '123'
SET password=123

:: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:: Set destination path name to save the backup file.
SET targetPath=C:\Backups\

:: Set full name of the backup.
SET fullName=MyDatabase_FullBackup 

:: *****************************************************************************

sqlcmd -S %server% -U %user% -P %password% -d %dataBase% -Q "BACKUP DATABASE %dataBase% TO  DISK = '%targetPath%%dataBase%.bak' WITH NOFORMAT, INIT,  NAME = N'%fullName%', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD,  STATS = 10;"

ECHO Backup finished...

I hope this helps someone looking for batch file solution of taking SQL server backups. I welcome your feedback and suggestions in the comments section below.

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