Database

How To Schedule SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard Database Backups

SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard Database Backups

SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional runs on Microsoft SQL Standard which allows maintenance plans to be set up which will automatically create backup files for the PDM databases.  However SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard runs on Microsoft SQL Express, which does not include the SQL Server Agent and thus does not have…

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Backing Up PDM Databases Automatically with SQL Server Agent

Proper backups are an essential part of data management.  For SOLIDWORKS PDM, there are two key elements that must be backed up to ensure that data is safe, the vault archives, and the vault database. The vault archives are copies of the actual files stored…

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Hole Wizard Database File is not the Expected Version

Hole Wizard Holes

The Problem: A question we often get on the support line is in regards to this error message: It reads: “Error: The database file ‘C:\SolidWorks Data\lang\english\swbrowser.mdb’ is not the expected version (16.02)” The file path and the number shown may vary. The Cause: Basically what…

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