Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news2.euro.net!multikabel.net!newsfeed20.multikabel.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Erland Sommarskog Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver Subject: Re: Clusterd db to non clustered.. Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:54:03 +0200 Organization: Erland Sommarskog Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <4FZTp.55723$_I7.29671@newsfe08.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="DD6dU+BfJNjsjSP4/K/V7w"; logging-data="9621"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18vZshrUrhZOOGmiZWnn2Xs" User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 Mime-proxy/2.1.c.0 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QNl1hD6s6/+8Z0va2MW7QWncC7U= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:540 Matthew Wells (matthew.wells@firstbyte.net) writes: > Thanks for your reply. I know that applies to the Windows server, but I > wasn't sure if anything was happening to the mdf/ldf or .bak files that > would make them unusable on a non clustered sql server. I guess I didn't > explain totally. The files don't look different because they are on a cluster. It would be a major bummer if they did, as you often want to use copies of production databases in less sophisticated environments. -- Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se Links for SQL Server Books Online: SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx