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Re: Moving a Database

From Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>
Newsgroups comp.databases.ms-sqlserver, microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming
Subject Re: Moving a Database
Followup-To comp.databases.ms-sqlserver
Date 2012-05-03 07:21 +0000
Organization Erland Sommarskog
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Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes:
>      I want to be able to slurp the whole database so that I will be
> able to get a copy of the production data for debugging use.  On the
> current system, when there are problems, my boss may send a copy of
> the database with instructions to look at certain rows.  This makes it
> much easier to replicate trouble, and is not very difficult for him to
> do.
> 
>      So what is the best way of doing this?  I am getting conflicting
> data.
 
BACKUP DATABASE db TO DISK = '<somepath>' WITH INIT

RESTORE DATABASE db FROM DISK '<somepath>' WITH
   MOVE '<name1>' TO '<path.mdf>',
   MOVE '<name2>' TO '<path.ldf>',
   REPLACE

You find name1 and name2 by running sp_helpdb on the source database. You 
can also use one of RESTORE HEADERONLY or RESTORE FILELISTONLY. (I never 
remember which is which.) These are logical names for the database files.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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Moving a Database Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-02 09:06 -0700
  Re: Moving a Database Jeroen Mostert <jmostert@xs4all.nl> - 2012-05-02 20:11 +0200
    Re: Moving a Database Jeroen Mostert <jmostert@xs4all.nl> - 2012-05-02 20:14 +0200
    Re: Moving a Database Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-02 12:41 -0700
      Re: Moving a Database Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2012-05-02 23:41 +0200
        Re: Moving a Database Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-02 20:10 -0700
          Re: Moving a Database Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2012-05-03 07:21 +0000
      Re: Moving a Database Mark D Powell <Mark.Powell2@hp.com> - 2012-05-03 07:29 -0700

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