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lalbatros
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69 Posts

Posted - 2008-07-18 : 05:52:18
Hello,

I spent now 2 hours trying to use the "copy database wizard" to duplicate my database on a Sql 2005 server. The job created by the wizard always failed in each attempts I made. The error message in the log file is always the same:

"Source SQL Server instance was not specified"

Any solution welcome, as long as it is not too complicated.
I just want to duplicate my database now.

In the future, I might be interrested to do that in a more automatic way, but today I would be happy to have just a clone of my current database.

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2008-07-18 : 12:41:22
Don't bother with the copy database wizard. Just do backup/restore.

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