Hi!

I'm using SQL Server 2005.

The DB has one table partitioned on 50 Filegroups (One per state)

The DB is right now on my drive G: as are the filegroups (But in
separate directories), and for a number of reasons, I have to move the
DB to drive F: but I need to keep the filegroups (With the bulk of the
data) on drive G:

Question is: How can I move the DB to another drive, leaving the
filegroups where they are?

Thank you!!!

P

Exactly what do you mean by "move the DB"? You can detach the database,
move some or all of the files and then reattach using CREATE DATABASE...FOR
ATTACH.


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Hope this helps.

Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP

"Piero 'Giops' Giorgi" <giorgi.piero (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

Piero 'Giops' Giorgi (giorgi.piero (AT) gmail (DOT) com) writes:
This link in Books Online should be useful:
ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/udb9/html/ad9a4e92-13fb-457d-996a-66ffc2d55b79.htm


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On Sep 25, 12:59 am, Erland Sommarskog <esq... (AT) sommarskog (DOT) se> wrote:

Looks like it is EXACTLY what I needed.

Im' going to try (as soon as the backup is done)

Thank you!

Piero

On Sep 25, 12:59 am, Erland Sommarskog <esq... (AT) sommarskog (DOT) se> wrote:

.... Am I right? (Just to be sure...)

The files NOW are in G:\CrimDB\ and I need them in F:\CrimDB\
The Filegroups are in G:\CrimDB\FileGroups

Basically I have to :

1) Detach the Database

use master
go
sp_detach_db 'crimdb'
go

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2) manually move the two files

G:\CrimDB\CrimDB.mdf
G:\CrimDB\CrimDB_Log.ldf

to the new F:\CrimDB\Data\ path]
---------------------------------------------------

3) reattach the Database

use master
go
sp_attach_db 'mydb','F:\CrimDB\Data\CrimDB.mdf','F:\CrimDB\Data
\CrimDB_Log.ldf'
go

The Filegroups will be seen without any other change, right?
(I just want to be sure, given that the Db has 350M records, I don't
want to break it...)

Thank you!

Piero

Piero 'Giops' Giorgi (giorgi.piero (AT) gmail (DOT) com) writes:
In the copy of Books Online I have it suggests ALTER DATABASE SET OFFLINE.
Does it really say sp_detach_db in yours?

This may be possible if you have an old version. I see now that the page
was updated on 5 December 2005, and the Change History says "Corrected the
steps in all procedures.".

See my signature for a link do download the updated Books Online.

Here is what my Books Online says:

To move a data or log file as part of a planned relocation, follow these
steps:

Run the following statement.

ALTER DATABASE database_name SET OFFLINE

Move the file or files to the new location.

For each file moved, run the following statement.

ALTER DATABASE database_name MODIFY FILE
( NAME = logical_name, FILENAME = 'new_path\os_file_name' )

Run the following statement.

ALTER DATABASE database_name SET ONLINE

Verify the file change by running the following query.

SELECT name, physical_name AS CurrentLocation, state_desc
FROM sys.master_files
WHERE database_id = DB_ID(N'<database_name>');

I don't know, and I don't have a multi-filegroup database to try on.

In any case, what I had in mind was ALTER DATABASE SET OFFLINE. Since
I did not remember the procedures exactly, I found link and posted
that. Sorry if that lead you to an old version that was incorrect.

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On Sep 25, 1:50 pm, Erland Sommarskog <esq... (AT) sommarskog (DOT) se> wrote:

Not anymore... :-)

Is this right? (Files will go in the F:\Main_CrimDB path)

Start with

ALTER DATABASE CrimDB SET OFFLINE

Then move the CrimDB.mdf and CrimDB_log.ldf files to F:\Main_CrimDB
and F:\Main_CrimDB\Log directories

And then

ALTER DATABASE CrimDB MODIFY FILE ( NAME = CrimDB, FILENAME = 'F:
\Main_CrimDB\' )
ALTER DATABASE CrimDB MODIFY FILE ( NAME = CrimDB_Log, FILENAME = 'F:
\Main_CrimDB\Log' )

ALTER DATABASE CrimDB SET ONLINE

And after that, the script to show the result

SELECT name, physical_name AS CurrentLocation, state_desc
FROM sys.master_files
WHERE database_id = DB_ID(N'CrimDB');


.... right?

P

Piero 'Giops' Giorgi (giorgi.piero (AT) gmail (DOT) com) writes:
If it's says so in Books Online, I guess it's OK. I haven't this
very often myself.

If you are uncertain of the procedures, create a toy database first
and play with that one.


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On Sep 25, 3:09 pm, Erland Sommarskog <esq... (AT) sommarskog (DOT) se> wrote:

All right!

Cross my fingers and GO! (Got a backup... )

It's going to be LONG... CrimDB.mdf is 39,433,797,632 bytes...

Thanks!

P

On Sep 25, 3:09 pm, Erland Sommarskog <esq... (AT) sommarskog (DOT) se> wrote:

Ok!

It worked perfectly, the mail table is on another drive and the
filegroups are where they were before.
NO Problem whatsoever.

We can safely say that moving the table does NOT destroy the
connection tables>partitions>filegroups

P