Change the location of the database files

Hi,
I would like to move my base from drive C: to drive D: .How can I do this
with MSDE (I don't have the MMC installed on the computer where I want to do
this)
Refer to following url
http://support.microsoft.com/default...en-us%3B224071
Vishal Parkar
vgparkar@.yahoo.co.in | vgparkar@.hotmail.com
"Gal" <W32.virus@.wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I would like to move my base from drive C: to drive D: .How can I do this
> with MSDE (I don't have the MMC installed on the computer where I want to
do
> this)
>
|||hi Gal,
"Gal" <W32.virus@.wanadoo.fr> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:uM8J5PqMEHA.3596@.tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I would like to move my base from drive C: to drive D: .How can I do this
> with MSDE (I don't have the MMC installed on the computer where I want to
do
> this)
you can do it detaching the desired database, moving the database files to
the new desired position a,d reattacchin the database...
log into oSql.exe..
1>EXEC sp_detach_db db_name
2>GO
move the file(s) to new location
1>EXEC sp_attach_db @.dbname = 'db_name' ,
2>@.filename1 = 'd:\:fulldatapath_of_DataFile.Mdf' ,
3>@.filename2 = 'd:\:fulldatapath_of_LogFile.Ldf'
4>GO
for your convenienence, you can have a look at a free prj of mine, available
at the link following my sign., which provide a user interface similar to
Enterprise Manager for full MSDE administration...
hth
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.7.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.53.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
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