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im1dermike
Posting Yak Master

222 Posts

Posted - 2009-03-24 : 09:47:27

Should you DROP a database before you restore it? I'm getting errors saying that the MDF file cannot be overwritten because it is being used by the database.

dinakar
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2507 Posts

Posted - 2009-03-24 : 10:45:12

you can "force restore over existing database" as one of the options.

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im1dermike
Posting Yak Master

222 Posts

Posted - 2009-03-24 : 10:50:38

Are you talking about the "overwrite the existing database" option? I have that set.

I'm doing this in a stored procedure where I pass the new database.

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[RestoreMGSMonthDatabase]
(
	@month varchar(100)
)

AS
BEGIN
	DECLARE @location1 varchar(1000), @location2 varchar(1000), @location3 varchar(1000), @month_db varchar(100)
	SET @month_db = 'MGSDB_' + @month
	SET @location1 = 'E:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup\' + @month_db + '.BAK'
	SET @location2 = 'E:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\' + @month_db + '.mdf'
	SET @location3 = 'E:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\' + @month_db + '_1.ldf'
	RESTORE DATABASE [@month_db] FROM  DISK = @location1 WITH  FILE = 1,  MOVE N'MGSDB' TO @location2,  MOVE N'MGSDB_log' TO @location3,  NOUNLOAD,  REPLACE,  STATS = 10
END

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