No more D partiton for SQL...

  • Our earlier SQL Servers ran under NT. We used a C partition of about 2GB with the rest of the disk being drive D.

    New directive: our new boxes with Win 2000 will only have a single, large, C partititon. Any ideas what's the best way to restore our old DBs (that resided on D) to this new partition scheme? I'm worried about embedded paths in the DB info, DTS scripts....

    Bill

  • Sounds like fun. Maybe a little trickery via the Subst command in the OS?

    Andy

  • What version of sql? If 7 or 2000, you can attach the databases and move them at the same time with the WITH MOVE option.

    Steve Jones

    steve@dkranch.net

  • And if this is coming from a backup set then you just start SQL server and create the databases then in EM you can restore directly over them to their current position, no questions asked. We have done in the past done restores to duplications on the same box (say original is Test we create a db Test2 and restores Test to Test2).

  • Bill,

    When you say embedded paths, were paths hard-coded into stored procedures and/or DTS ActiveX Task Steps?

    K. Brian Kelley

    bkelley@sqlservercentral.com

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/bkelley/

    K. Brian Kelley
    @kbriankelley

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