Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

What is the best way to do this? File locations will be different on new server.<BR><BR>Should I SP_DETACH_DB the source DB, copy over the .mdf/.ldf files, then SP_ATTACH_DB on destination server with ...

I've been working with SQL Server for over 20 years now, Generally, I limit my tools to the things I might expect to find in a given client environment. My toolbox typically includes the tools that ...