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Tiago
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Posted - 2006-06-27 : 04:59:38
My system has 12 datafiles,
and i wat to reduce them to 3 datafiles
(i am going to put each file in diferent disk)

can you help me please?

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-27 : 05:19:34
Hmmm... Backup and restore on [PRIMARY]?


Peter Larsson
Helsingborg, Sweden
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nr
SQLTeam MVY

12543 Posts

Posted - 2006-06-27 : 05:37:05
You can do a shrink file to move the data into other files then delete the file until you end up with 3 files. Then you can backup and restore (or detach/attach after a backup) to move the files.

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