Move Sql Server From One Drive To Another

How To Move A Log File From 'e' Drive To 'f' Drive....

I 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?

How To Move DBs To New Drive?

How do I move all the databases to a new drive in the same machine?What effects/problems will be?
Thanks!

Best Way To Move Datafile From C Drive To D

I obviously did not search the archives on the right terms so what isthe easiest and fastest way to move a 3G database from a nearly full Cdrive to the nearly empty D drive that should have been used.I could back it up, drop it, recreate it using the D drive, and restoreit but it seems like there should be a way to just move the datafileand use if from the new location.I am thinking that detatch/attach is the best method, but I would likeconfirmation or suggestions on how to proceed or things to be aware ofwhen using this method.-- Mark D Powell --

Move .ndf File To A Different Drive

I have a several indexes on a filegroup that I would like to move to a different physical drive. I am aware of the sp_detach...sp_attach routine which allows moving the .mdf and .log files to a different location. How would I go about moving a .ndf file though?

TIA

File System Task Error When Using SQL Server Agent (when Move File On Network Drive)

I am able to run SSIS packages as SQL Server Agent jobs with a Control Flow items "File system task", if I move a file (test.txt) from a drive (c on the server (where SQL Agent jobs run) to a subdirectory on the same drive. But, if I try to move a file on a network drive, the package fail.



What I can do to solve this issue.



Bye!

Daniel

Need To Move Data And Log Files To A Different Drive?

Move Distribution Database To Another Drive?

Is it possible to move a distribution database to another drive without removing replication? I have done some research but I getting mixed answers from Google searches.

Thanks in advance
Dave

How To Move Only The Transaction Log Files (.ldf) To A Different Drive?

Hello guys and girls. I have installed SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition and I have specified that the databases should be created on the K: drive. This is okay but now I need to move all the transaction log files (.ldf) to the L: drive. I have already changed the default location for the log files to point to the L: drive and the new databases that were created after the installation have their transaction log file correctly in the L: drive but now I need to move transaction log files for the master, model, temp ... databases. How can this be done? And are there any gotchas?

Move Log Files For SQL 2005 Databases To Another Drive

Hello,

I need to move all log files for my SQL 2005 databases to another drive. I don't wish to shrink the files, I need to move the logs to another drive spindle. I did find an article (Article ID: 224071) that describes moving both the database and logs using sp_detach and then sp_attach. What is the best way just to move the logs to another drive on the same server, and that keeps the databases in their original location?
Thanks.

Move Distribution Data/log Files To Another Drive

I haven't found the definitive answer on how or if this can be done without removing replication. I'm thinking ALTER DATABASE modify_file is the way to go. Anybody know if this will work or a better way to go about it?

Thanks

Move Principle And Mirror From Local Drive To San?

I have a 600 gig database that has a mirror. I need to move the databases from local drives to a SAN. Can anyone recommend a document that lists the steps to go through to move both the principle and mirror to the SAN with no down time? or minimal down time?

Move Current Huge Data File To New GPT Drive?

I have a database data file almost at 2tb maxing out a windows drive. Only 16gb left. Should I just add another data file on another Windows drive for growth? Or just move current huge data file to a new GPT drive? Or do both adding another data file and moving existing to its own new GPT drive?

Primary objective is to make do for now.

Moving A SQL Server 2000 Database From A Local Drive To Another Local Drive

Being a very novice SQL Server administrator, I need to ask the experts a question.

How do I go about moving a database from 1 drive to another? The source drive (C is local to the server, but the target drive (E is on a Storage Area Network (SAN), although it is still a local drive for the server. I want to move the database from C: to E:. Can someone provide me with instructions?

Thanks,
Rick

SQL 2012 :: How To Backup Half Of DBs From A Server On C Drive And Other Half On D Drive

How to backup half of dbs from a server on C drive and the other half on D drive and vice versa, first half on D drive and other half On C drive using only one job and one stored procedure??

Using scheduling from job add 2 schedules to the job so first schedule backup first half to C and second half to D , the second schedule backup first half to D and second half to D.

Can I Used A Shared Drive Rather Than A Mapped Drive With OpenRowSet?

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...

SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=C:5People.xls', [Sheet1$])

below doesn't work...

SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=\cluster02FileManager5People.xls', [Sheet1$])

SAN Drive Speed Vs Local Drive

How do you compare SAN drive vs local drive on a 32 bit server?

Is it good idea to move my DB files to a SAN instead of local?

Canada DBA

TempDB Keeps Getting Filled And It Is In C Drive But It Should Be In T Drive

Server: 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? 

C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.SQLPROD6MSSQLDATA empdb
Correct location of TempDB should be: TempDB(T:) But its not there

Migrating Sql Server To Another Drive

I would like to know the 'best' way to migrate an existing S2K server database from the 'C' drive to another drive on the same machine.

Thank you

Sysbase Drive For SQL Server

I am running a Win2K Professional and SQL Server 2000. I also installed Sysbase on my pc. I tried to import Sysbase database from SQL Server 2000 manager but I could not see Sysbase ODBC driver. Does any body know how can I get the Sysbase ODBC driver.

Thanks.

Moving SQL Server To A New Drive

We installed MS SQL Server to our drive D drive E was the CDROM Drive.We wanted to move the CDROM drive to drive D and the hard drive to driveE. We change that around and corrected the registry entries -repointing everything to drive E instead of D. SQL Server however willnot start it says it cannot find the databases. Where is thisinformation stored. How can I go about changing it?~Todd

Installing SQL Server On C Drive

I have always installed SQL Server (2000 and 2005) on the c drive of the server, and placed the data and log files on seperate disks.
Our network administrator says it should be installed on the d drive and c should be left just for the windows install. Is there any benefit in this? It seems to be causing a problem with our SAN having SQL Server installed on the c drive. Anyone else had similar problems?

Thanks
Danny

Accessing A NetWare Drive From Within SQL Server

Hi,

Anyone ever try to access a NetWare drive from within SQL Server. I have setup a netware account that matches the NT account that the SQL service runs under and given this account the necessry access to the drive. When I do a xp_cmdshell 'dir h:' (h: being the netware drive) I get an 'Access is denied' error.

Any help much appreciated.
Regards,
Donal

Running A Sql Server Mdf File From A Usb Drive

Hi All,
I've been trying to find the answer but been unable to. My question is it possible to create a SQL Server (2005) database in a usb2 drive? I have a large usb drive that i would like to store my database into instead of my local drive which is not that big.

Thanks

SQL Server 6.5 Recovery Of Db After Drive Failure.

Good Morning guys n Gals.

New user on these forums, so basically, hey, how are yas?

I have a bit of a situation, and have done a search - although not much info has turned up relating to my situation (maybe my search was just useless).

Anyways, basically, I run SQL Server 6.5 on NT4 server.
The disks were striped - not RAIDED.

What happened was, the 4th disk died, and we replaced it with a new blank drive.

Now, I am left with two DAT files (log and data) for my database.
I cannot remember how large these were created as it was many years ago.

I have no backups.

Reseting the status hasn't worked, also I have tried creating a new DB / Devices (in size similar to those reported in windows), and "moving" the devices to point to the original ones, but no luck: and thus was wondering if anybody had any hint / tips or ideas?

Cheers,
Jamie

Moving DB Files To Another Drive On The Server.

Howdy y'all! :)

I have been instructed to move a large database we have on one of our servers off the current drive (local RAID-5 driveset in the server) to a EMC "drive" (logical drive, off-server).

I know one option is to back up the database, delete the database, re-create the db using the new drive for data/log files, then restore the database.

However, I was wondering if it would be better to just detach the DB, move the data/log files, then reattach to them?

Is it half-doz of one, and 6 of the other?

How should I go about this dastardly deed?

Off to poke around in BOL, but thought I would post first in case it's an incredibly easy answer for y'all

Thanks!

SQL Server Moving To Larger Drive

I have a Windows 2003 server with SQL Server 2005 installed. Theserver is on small drive and we would like to upgrade to much largerharddrives. I've been hearing of problems using Ghost to get an imageand placing the image onto the new drive. I think this is more of aWindows 2003 problem, but this server is for nothing but the SQLServer databases. Does anyone have a clear method of moving thisserver to the larger drives?TIA.

Moving Database From One Drive To Another On Same Server

I am new to sql server world as I am a controls engineer who is being asked to manage an asset management system at our facility. We have a system that uses SQL 2005 Express. My database is on drive C, but it is only 10gig and it is running out of space. I have a 210 GIG hard drive as drive D. What is the easiest way to move the database from C to D?

SQL Server 2005 Installation To A Drive Other Than C

Why wont the installer for SQL Server let me install onto a drive other than the C drive? I am trying to install the Client tools only, but it insists on making me install to C. I need to install to a different drive for space reasons. I had SQL Server 2000 client installed, but I have since uninstalled it and tried the SQL 2005 install again and every time it wants to use the C drive.



If anyone knows a why to make this work I would greatly appreciate it.

SQL Server 2000 Does Not See Tape Drive

We are currently trying to restore a copy of our production database to a different server. Unfortunately SQL does not see the tape drives and we are not able to add them. The tape drives are installed and visible in device manager. I have updated all drivers and firmware but still no luck. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks

Unable To Access D Drive In Server

I have two drives in SQL Server Box. C and D drives. I am using below script to move mdf and log files from C: drive to D: Drive. However, I keep getting error : Directory lookup for the file "D:PackagesTestVGR.mdf" failed with the operating system error 5(Access is denied.).

USE MASTER;
GO
-- Take database in single user mode -- if you are facing errors
-- This may terminate your active transactions for database
ALTER DATABASE TestVGR

[code]...

Help SQL Server 7 Dump Data To Hard Drive

Hi,

I am running sql server 7 with 200+GB database size. I have one table with following fields

IIINDEX
DOCTYPE
IMAGE BLOB

I need to dump all the information from this table to hard drive.

I have try with delphi ado and delphi odbc (limit 1mb), somehow when I run the program it gives me an error message E_ timeout.

How can I dump this information without using delphi.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

If you have any code that can help please email me samirp@ix.netcom.com

Thanks.

Samir

SQL Server Software On Cluster: Local Drive Other Than C:?

I'm trying to build a new cluster with SQL Server 2K Enterprise onWindows 2003 server. When I run the install, I tell it to put theprogram files on the D: (local) drive and the data/log files on shareddrives. However, after the installation is complete, almost all thefiles go in the C: drive in program filesMicrosoft SQL Server, ratherthan the D: drive (it does create a few files on D:). We've experiencedthis on more than one server build.Anyone know any way around this?Post answers publicly, please, or email tosteven.wechsler(at)mtvstaff.com (the posting email address is hosed).Thanks,Steve