So it may take a while to copy to its new location ... Once it’s there go back into SQL Server Management Studio. Right-Click the databases Folder, The click Attach. Locate the new location ...

If the aim is to clone an old SQL Server to failover to the new one without making any changes to applications or the way users log in, the best course is to copy databases using the Copy Database ...

For instance, if you copy a SQL 2000 database to SQL Server 2008, the new copy is an upgrade to the new internal format but retains a Compatibility Level of “80” which represents SQL 2000 aka ...

In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database. In part one of this article, I described a ...

I'm doing some development on a dev server of ours for a site that's currently live on another server. They have their own server with a SQL Server database holding the data for the live site.