Management Studio's Tasks screen

The Management Studio's Tasks screen is designed to allow you to perform common administrative tasks for RavenDB databases. Within the Management Studio's Tasks screen, you can basically import and export databases between the RavenDB servers. Each database may be exported as a dump file that has a .ravendump extension. On the other hand, you can also use this dump file to import a database into RavenDB.

Also, within the Tasks screen, you can create a backup of your database and enable or disable background indexing tasks. This is used basically by developers for debugging purpose and requires database administrator privileges.

You may need to import your data into RavenDB using a CSV file, this task is performed by the CSV Import feature. Note that if the imported file contains Unicode characters, it should be encoded using UTF-8.

Also, within the Tasks screen, you can insert sample data into your database and populate it for learning or testing purposes (a feature that we used in the previous chapter in order to populate our first RavenDB database).