I am using SQL Server 2012 Express (Management Studio).
I am trying to restore a database from a bak file to my database while is on hosting server.
First I connect to my hosting server using management studio.
Then when I try to restore the database from bak file which is on my computer. I select the database from "Device" - but when I click on "BROWSE" to locate the bak file - it is automatically using the path as - c:\Program files \ sql server \ MSSQL \ Backup
This path doesn't exists on my computer. Even though I try to create it manually, it still give me error that this path doesn;t exist.
How to change or re-define this default device file path ?
>> First I connect to my hosting server using management studio. >> when I try to restore the database from bak file which is on my computer
No hope unless you can share the folder on your machine to the hosted machine - and you probably should hope that is not possible. You probably need to look at transfering the backup file to the server.
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Sorry for the confusion but I think my question is something else..
When I try to restore from a .bak file to my new database - I am unable to do that because by default the sql server is choosing a path which doesn't even exist on my machine and I am not able to select a new path.
This is what I get I click on "Browse" button to select the .bak file from my computer
When I click on ok - I get the following (still no way to change the path to select .bak file):
How to re-define path restoring database?
Posted - 01/09/2013 : 23:50:00
