Changing Drive Letters
Oct 9, 2007All,
I have a test server that needs the drive letters changed for the data, log and backup drives. Is there a way to make this change without reinstalling SQL Server?
Future guru in the making.
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Drive Letters And MDF/LDF Files...
Apr 18, 2007All,
I'm writing to ask if anyone knows whether or not MS SQL server stores in any system tables the association between a database and the drive letter/directory path where its corresponding MDF/LDF files are located.
Thanks,
Isaac
Restoring The Master To Different Drive Letters
Jul 20, 2005Can you restore the master database, running on windows server 2000, sqlserver 2000 from a backup that was taken from c: to another serverrestoring to d:?*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
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Jul 3, 2015As part of a migration of data to a new SAN I have hit a bit of a snag in the migration. In summary what will happen is user database data files will be moved from one LUN (say drive F:) to a new LUN (say drive G:). Once all the data is migrated, plan is to remove dependency of that drive from SQL server and remove the drive and delete the LUN. So far, so good.
However one of the LUNs (drive D:) destined to be deleted also hosts the instance default directories, i.e. everything under MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER (Data, Backups, FTData, JOBS, etc). BOL has articles on how to migrate system databases, including tempdb. But there is no guidance that I could find on how to relocate other folders. There are forums where users have listed registry changes, etc that can achieve this but these are steps I am unwilling to take on a production server.
So my plan is:
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2) Shutdown SQL server
3) Copy all default folders to new drive
4) Swap drive letters so that new drive is now D:
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Adding New Volume And Swapping Drive Letters....
Apr 11, 2007Hello - I have a SQL 2000 server which has a D: drive that contains all of my databases (system and user). I am running out of space on this volume and need to migrate the contents of this volume to a larger one. My initial plan was to introduce a new volume to the server (say a K: drive). Backup all databases (of course), and then stop all SQL services. Copy all data from D: to K:. Once data is copied, swap drive letter names (D: to I: and then K: to D. Then restart SQL services. SQL should not know any better since everything was on the D: drive when it went down, and everythiing is still on the D: drive when it came back up, correct?
The other option mentioned is to detatch the databases, copy the data and then reattach them in their new locations. I understand this method, but it seems more involved (and riskier) than just renaming the drives. Does anyone have an opinion regarding these two migration methods? Thanks for your help.
Chris
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Dec 5, 2007Hi guys. I'm new to MySQL..
I've just installed MySQL on drive C: of the server, but now i need to change it from drive C: to drive D:. Is there anyway of doing this?
Changing Drive Letter
Jul 20, 2005Hi there. I have to change the drive letter where SQL server have hisdatfiles (master included). If I do that, ob the SQL fail to start, becouseit's unable to find the master datfiles. Is it possible changing driverletter without reinstalling the complete product?BRamnésia
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Apr 4, 2008
Hi
I have been trying to use openrowset with a shared drive, and even though the share has "full control" permissions granted to "everyone" and the accout that SQL runs under has been granted explicit full control permissions I am unable to open the file which itself has no security on it.
Can I not use a \ path and only use mapped drives?
Thanks
below works...
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below doesn't work...
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How To Move A Log File From 'e' Drive To 'f' Drive....
Nov 9, 2000I am trying to move a log file from one drive to another.
What I have done is add another file to my file group. So now my log has a file on the 'e' drive and one on the 'f' drive. I now want to remove the file on the 'e' drive. I have emptied the file on the 'e' drive. When doing the command:
ALTER DATABASE Uniprodruntime
REMOVE FILE m_rk_runtime_log
I get the following error message..
Server: Msg 5020, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The primary data or log file cannot be removed from a database.
I have also gone into enterprise manager and tried to delete the file and it does nothing.
Has anyone run into this?
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Nov 28, 2015Server: SQL 2008 R2
 1: TempDB keeps getting filled.  Restart of the server has not fixed it. I shrink it, but the space gets filled again. Now I can't even shrink it anymore
2: TempDB is at the wrong location. Its current location is this :C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.SQLPROD6MSSQLDATA empdb
How do I change its location?Â
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Group Everything With The Same First Two Letters
Aug 17, 2007
I'm working on a stored procedure that works fine. I just want to make it possible for the user to be able to have a drop down list in reporting services to display the "question codes" grouped by whatever the first two digits are. for example.
VT01
VT02
VT03
VN01
VN02
VN03
ST01
ST02
ST03
instead of listing everything, i want the viewers to see this
VT
VN
ST
or an alias for each of these like this:
Vet Tasks
Vet National
Survey Tasks
Survey National
any ideas, here's my current code, which is pullin up anything with the added substring part
Code Snippet
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[Testing_Questions]
(@Region_Key int=null,@QuestionCode char(5))
AS
BEGIN
SELECT dbo.Qry_Questions.Territory,
dbo.Qry_Questions.SalesResponsible,
dbo.Qry_Questions.Customer,
dbo.Qry_Questions.Date,
dbo.Qry_Questions.StoreName,
dbo.Qry_Questions.PostCode,
dbo.Qry_Questions.Address2,
dbo.Qry_Questions.[Question Code],
dbo.Qry_Questions.Question,
dbo.Qry_Questions.[Response Type],
dbo.Qry_Questions.response,
dbo.Qry_Questions.sales_person_code,
dbo.Qry_Sales_Group.Region_Key,
dbo.Qry_Sales_Group.Region
FROM dbo.Qry_Questions
INNER JOIN dbo.Qry_Sales_Group
ON dbo.Qry_Questions.sales_person_code COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS = dbo.Qry_Sales_Group.SalesPerson_Purchaser_Code
WHERE REGION_KEY=@Region_Key
AND SUBSTRING(dbo.Qry_Questions.[Question Code],0,3)=@QuestionCode
END
SET NOCOUNT OFF
WHERE Includes All Letters
Apr 18, 2006Hi
I would like to perform a procedure
which takes a string of numbers and searches for strings in a table which include all the
given numbers in any particular order. problem is i can only return strings
which include 'any' of the letters in the search string and not
'all'.
this is how i perform it so far:
@IncludeNumbers
VARCHAR(50)
AS
BEGIN
SELECT Phone AS [Telephone
Number]
FROM tbl_Person AS p
WHERE (p.Phone LIKE '%[' +
@IncludeNumbers + ']%')
END
(ive removed some unecessary bits but
this shows the basics)
As you can see currently it will return any phone numbers which contain any numbers given in the includeNumbers string, I would only like it to return phone numbers which contain all the numbers given in the includeNumbers string. is there any way to make it search for strings
which include 'all' numbers given?
thanks
Robert
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Thanks,
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[logo goes here]
123 Any St.
AnyCity, CA 90210
[today's date]
Dear [name from database],
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Sincerely,
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Nov 20, 2007Hi everyone,
As source on a Sql25k table I've got this (often):
XXXXX ZZZZZZZ YYYYYYYY
And, as a result I'd need this (plain file):
Xxxxx Zzzzzz Yyyyy
Ok guys, with VbScript inside a DTS it's very easy, building a loop and then playing with Ucase, Left functions stuff and so on...
How could I do this using a DTSX package?? Any specialized task?
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Aug 4, 2004Hi,
I have a table in an Access db that stores information about speech files. One of the fields in this table is called "Text" and it contains the phrase spoken in that particular speechfile.
These phrases often have characters such as the "#" sign at the end to indicate what tone of voice is used.
I am trying to create a Search where users can enter the phrase they are looking for, and will be returned the file (or combination of files) that contain this phrase.
My problem is, when I try to search for a string of text that includes the "#" I get 0 results everytime.
An example of what I am doing is this:
SELECT Speechfiles.Name FROM Speechfiles
WHERE Speechfiles.Text LIKE 'aero#'
It works fine for 'aero' or '*aero*' but whenever I try to add a character that is not a letter, it won't work.
If anyone has any ideas, I would REALLY appreciate it!!! I am completely at a loss.
Thanks so much....
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Feb 12, 2008Hi Everybody
I have this situation where I need to extract values from a field that satisfies this criteria...
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Code:
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Feb 11, 2004Ok here's a big one.
First I'm a big NEWBIE, so it'd be great if you can provide a little explanation as to how this should be done...
Here's what I want to do, but have no idea how to approach it.
I have a table with Quotes (table Quote) in them (for a Sale's Team). Each has a quote number (qtQN) and this number is sequencial but sometimes revised where a letter is added at the end. Like so:
qtQN__________Date
---------------------------
111q0001--------02/01/04
111q0002--------02/02/04
111q0002A------02/03/04
111q0002B -----02/04/04
222q0005--------01/15/04
etc... ------------- etc...
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222q0005
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CREATE TABLE [dbo].[PTEMP](
[ID] [char](10) NULL,
[name] [char](10) NULL,
[CTVALUE1] [char](80) NULL
)
INSERT INTO PTEMP
VALUES('11','ABC','0000010T00010L0001000T010C0001')
select * from ptemp
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Oct 24, 2013i have string where i need to convert them into Capital text in required string only
i have written query to do this using Charindex it is finding only one how to go for 2nd one i am only finding the 2 nd word through index how to find other words also
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For Example :
have a great day
my desired out put :
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Mar 16, 2004Yeah, it's pretty simple. Maybe it'll help someone out.
-- USAGE: fn_extract_chars(string_to_search, 'letters' -or- 'numbers')
CREATE FUNCTION fn_extract_chars (@x varchar(128), @y char(7))
RETURNS varchar(128)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @chars varchar(128)
DECLARE @pos int
DECLARE @action varchar(32)
SET @pos = 0
SET @chars = ''
IF @y = 'numbers' SET @action = '[0-9]'
ELSE IF @y = 'letters' SET @action = '[a-zA-Z]'
WHILE @pos < (DATALENGTH(@x) + 1)
BEGIN
IF PATINDEX(@action,SUBSTRING(@x, @pos, 1)) > 0
BEGIN
SET @chars = @chars + (SELECT SUBSTRING(@x, @pos, 1))
END
SET @pos = @pos + 1
END
RETURN(@chars)
END