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Author Re: Restoring a database to the same server but with a new databas
Quang Nguyen

2005-12-02, 8:23 pm

Hi Glen,

Thanks for the reply. After you ran the

> RESTORE FILELISTONLY
> FROM MyDatabase


and got the following in return:
Logical names Physical names
MyDatabase_data D:\MyData\MyDatabase
_Test_data.mdf
MyDatabase_log D:\MyData\MyDatabase
_Test_log.ldf

The question remains is when you run the
> RESTORE DATABASE MyDatabase_Test
> FROM MyDatabase
> WITH RECOVERY,
> MOVE 'MyDatabase_data' TO 'D:\MyData\MyDatabas
e_Test_data.mdf',
> MOVE 'MyDatabase_log' TO 'D:\MyData\MyDatabas
e_Test_log.ldf'


You've only changed the name of the physical files. What about the logical
names of MyDatabase_data and MyDatabase_log? Under your new MyDatabase_Test
database, you would have the same logical names as your MyDatabase. My
question is is that will this pose a problem for SQL Server in any way?


"GlennThomas5" wrote:

> If you want to keep them both in the same folder you can change the
> name of one. eg
>
> USE master
> GO
> -- First determine the number and names of the files in the backup.
> -- MyDatabase is the name of the backup device.
> RESTORE FILELISTONLY
> FROM MyDatabase
> -- Restore the files for MyDatabase_Test.
> RESTORE DATABASE MyDatabase_Test
> FROM MyDatabase
> WITH RECOVERY,
> MOVE 'MyDatabase_data' TO 'D:\MyData\MyDatabas
e_Test_data.mdf',
> MOVE 'MyDatabase_log' TO 'D:\MyData\MyDatabas
e_Test_log.ldf'
> GO
>
>

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