Moving .ldf to new drive, doesn't work gives "Cannot associate fil

The procedure you described should work fine. But I suspect your .ldf file is
not really from that database.
Linchi
"caperneus@.gmail.com" wrote:

> I am trying to move a log file to a non-RAID drive. I have detached
> the database and made a copy of the .ldf file. I have taken this copy
> of the .ldf file and placed it where I want it to be. I would like to
> keep the .mdf file where it is located on the RAID drive, but for some
> reason I can only reattach if the .ldf file is in the same location as
> the .mdf file.
> I have then run:
> USE MASTER
> GO
> EXEC sp_attach_db @.dbname = N'Corporate',
> @.filename1 = N'F:\Web\MSSQL$WEB\Data\Corporate_Data.mdf',
> @.filename2 = N'E:\Web\Corporate\Corporate_Log.ldf'
> And it returns:
> Server: Msg 5173, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
> Cannot associate files with different databases.
> Is this possible?
>
Instead of detached and attached try backup and restore ...
BACKUP DATABASE Corporate
TO DISK = 'E:\backup_corporate.bak'
WITH INIT
Drop the database, and delete the mdf and ldf file (or just back it up)
Then the Restore:
RESTORE DATABASE Corporate
FROM DISK = 'E:\backup_corporate.bak'
WITH RECOVERY,
MOVE '[datafilelogicalname]' TO 'F:\Web\MSSQL$WEB\Data\Corporate_Data.mdf',
MOVE '[loglogicalname]' TO 'E:\Web\Corporate\Corporate_Log.ldf'
Hope that works.
Lucas
<caperneus@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Jun 14, 2:44 pm, Linchi Shea <LinchiS...@.discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> It is really from that database. I can attach it back with no problems
> if the files are in the same directory.
>