Monday, March 26, 2012

moving a database to another physical disk

I want to move 2 databases to another physical disk. They are both single file databases. It looks like a fairly straigtforward attach and detach procedure, but I have a couple of questions:

The log files (.ldf) currently reside on a separate physical disk from the data files, if I attach and reattach the data files will the logs remain where they are by default or do I have to re specify there location?

Is there any advantage to running the update statistics portion of the sp_detach_db?with the re-attach procedure you can specify the location of the log file as well. See the article in BOL and this is probably the quickest method. However the same thing can be done with backup and restore using the with move and replace arguments.

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