External Drive Died - Help

  • Hi -

    We have our product databases on a Raid 5 disk array mirrored to another Raid 5 disk array. However, we have (had) our "testing" database on an attached USB drive. It just died yesterday. Now I have have testing databases that I can't access and can't remove.

    How do I remove them?

    Thank you.

    Mike Meer

  • Hm, take it offline and then delete the databases from SQL sounds about right just off the top of my head.

    Gail may have a better answer..

    CEWII

  • All,

    It wants to "delete database backuphistory". This seems to be the issue. If I skip that, will I have issues later down the road?

    EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_delete_database_backuphistory @database_name = N'xx_Training'

    GO

    USE [master]

    GO

    /****** Object: Database [xx_Training] Script Date: 07/09/2013 07:48:36 ******/

    DROP DATABASE [xx_Training]

    GO

    Thank you

  • No, backup history allows you to more simply restore backups. Which you can do without backup history it just takes longer.

    CEWII

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