FileTables, a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012, is a unique table that reflects metadata of files in a specified folder.

How to Open a Microsoft SQL Server .Bak File. You can save a backup of your MS SQL databases to a single file on your hard drive. These backup files have names ending with the ".bak" file ...

Now that you’ve automated the fetching of your flat file via FTP, the next step is to automatically import that file into SQL Server. To do this, we’ll use an SQL Server Agent Job.