I have an SQL 2008 R2 installation that I was able to setup a maintenance plan to do full backups of the DB, the transaction logs, shrinking the DB, etc.
I've got another server running a SQL 2005 Express installation for Symantec Backup Exec 2012 and an Exchange server also running a SQL 2005 Express installation for SCANMAIL. After test and research, I've realized that Express (2005 and 2008) doesn't have an SQL Agent, so I cannot setup a maintenance plan like I did on the 2008 R2 server.
A couple of questions:
1. Can I somehow utilize the 2008 R2 installation to remotely perform maintenance on the Express server's databases?
2. My guess is the answer to #1 is no, so does anyone in the community have suggestions on how to backup and maintain the Express databases? I'm no expert in SQL, T-SQL (an SQL scripting language?) or any other scripting for that matter so I wouldn't be all that thrilled to use Windows Task Scheduler combined with a script. I also don't want anything that involves manual running anything.
Thanks in advance.
--Mark