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 drive
E. We change that around and corrected the registry entries -
repointing everything to drive E instead of D. SQL Server however will
not start it says it cannot find the databases. Where is this
information stored. How can I go about changing it?
~Todd
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
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!
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.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI 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?
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I have a database(CEB) and my CEB.mdf is on D Drive and CEB.LDF is on
G DRIVE ...NOw I want to move the CEB.LDF on to the different drive ..
can any one suggest me the way and will I have any effect on the database.
It is kind of urgent.
Thanks
RAGHU
Hello All,
Can anyone be so kind as to turn me on to a script to move a database from spilt drives C: and D: to just drive D:. (we have one of those Dell's that comes with C/D partitions so we split the .dta files with a limit on the primary file, but the damn C: drive still ran low on disk space and now we can't install Win 2003 SP2 on it!)
thanks in advance
Bill
I currently have about 4 databases on our SAN located in one of the drives. These databases are going to expand massively and I want o seperate 1 onto seperate drives located on the SAN. I figured using SQL Server Management Studio I could complete this with an easy "Detach / Attach" operation. When I go to attach the files back into SQL, it doesn't read any other drive other than the current drive all of the databases are located on.
Is there a way to do this?
I currently have about 4 databases on our SAN located in one of the drives. These databases are going to expand massively and I want o seperate 1 onto seperate drives located on the SAN. I figured using SQL Server Management Studio I could complete this with an easy "Detach / Attach" operation. When I go to attach the files back into SQL, it doesn't read any other drive other than the current drive all of the databases are located on.
Is there a way to do this?
Hello all -
I have TFS installed on one machine, and the SQL Server database on another. I made the unfortunate mistake of installing SQL Server to the OS drive (C : ), so the TFS database is writing to this drive. How can I switch this to write to another drive (e.g. E:)?
thanks
Hi,
I'm trying to move the transaction logs of my databases to a different drive (for fault tolerance). I can create a second transaction log file for each database via Enterprise Manager but I have 2 questions:
1) If two transaction log files exist for a database which one does it use ?
2) How do I force SQL to use the new transaction log file ? (so I can delete old)
Thanks,
Tim
Hey guys i want to relocate my database datafile and transaction logs from C: drive to D:
From what i have in mind , correct me if i am wrong: First I will create the same folder on D drive as they are on C drive then copy the datafile from C to D , then come back and change the paths on the database files to point on D.
I am trying to find out if it is possible to move indexes to a separate filegroup/disk drive during database restore. I am trying this to see if it improves performance. Also if I cannot move the indexes during restore, how would I move them afterwards to a different filegroup/disk drive? Thanks in advance for all the help.
View 7 Replies View RelatedHello all ...
is there a standard procedure or document that explains how to:
Expand tempdb onto a faster drive ... making it larger
then ...
Remove the small portion of tempdb from my c: drive to reduce contention?
Thanks!
Doug
I want to move all indexes into new separate drive for this I need to create new .ndf file in particular drive.
Mirroring has configured for the DB but the principal and mirror servers do not have same drives.
I want to move indexes to new drive and the derive is not present in mirror server.
I have a database [CarlosDB] that currently has it's .MDF on E: and I need to move the x2 .NDF data files off C: to E:data using a single T-SQL statement:
Code:
database_id file_id db_name disk_path status size read_only
----------- ----------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
7 1 CarlosDB E:dataCarlosDB.mdf ONLINE 384 0
7 2 CarlosDB_log L:logsCarlosDB_log.ldf ONLINE 128 0
7 3 CarlosDB_2 C:sqlCarlosDB_2.ndf ONLINE 128 0
7 4 CarlosDB_3 C:sqlCarlosDB_3.ndf ONLINE 128 0
(4 row(s) affected)
Looking at the file configuration above, what would be the most logical way as a DBA / SQL Server 2014 Std to move the NDF files to live w/ the MDF file using:
Code:
EXEC master.dbo.xp_cmdshell 'copy c:sqlCarlosDB_2.ndf e:dataCarlosDB_2/ndf'...
but cleanly using a single T-SQL statement? properly formatting a single T-SQL query to use the xp_cmdshell system stored procedure.
We are seeing very high Average Disk Queue Length numbers in one of our clusters (both nodes of the cluster are Virtual, but have their own dedicated virtual environments). Our main data drive also houses TempDB, which I would like to move.
Each node in the Active/Passive cluster are running Windows Server 2012 Standard 64bit and SQL Server 2012 Enterprise 64bit. There is a separate drive for Log files and data files.
The data files also have TempDB on them as previously mentioned. I am reading that you can set up a local disk on each node of the cluster, with the same drive letter and path and then move tempdb as you would with a stand alone SQL Server.
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.
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$])
below doesn't work...
SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=\cluster02FileManager5People.xls', [Sheet1$])
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 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
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
I need to move Sql of the C drive on a server to another drive. Any Ideas.
Thanks Brett
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 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]...
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