Hi Guru:
I work with Oracle but is completedly new to SQL Server. I was required to create database and restore from a dump file (I would think that it likes oracle's import). The dump file was created by SQL Server's backup command(I would think it likes oracle's export). But I got errors like:
Server: Msg 5105, Level 16, State 2, Line 3
Device activation error. The physical file name 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\data\dev_Data
Server: Msg 3156, Level 16, State 1, Line 3
File 'vwdev_Data' cannot be restored to 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\data\dev_Data
Server: Msg 5105, Level 16, State 1, Line 3
I use the command as:
restore database dev
from disk = 'C:\TEMP\James\dev.bak'
go
Any suggestions, thanks.
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just one thing:
logical name is not alwayse like databse name - looks like (from error above) you have not 'dev' but 'vwdev_Data'
for dat file:
restore database dev
from disk = 'c:\temp\james\dev.bak'
with move 'vwdev_Data' ' to 'c:\dev_data.mdf',
move 'dev_log' to 'c:\dev_log.ldf' ---
--to see logical name of the dtabase - run in Query Analyzer -
use yourdatabsenamesource
go
select name,filename from sysfiles
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by: ChrisFretwellPosted on 2004-04-02 at 20:23:13ID: 10746304
run this command first. It gives you the details of what you need to know about that backup.
restore filelistonly from disk = 'c:\temp\james\dev.bak'
this will tell you about the mdf and ldf and their logical names. then you can run the restore with move.
it sounds like you want to restore to somewhere other than where the original was. for this you need to use with move like this
move '[logical_file_name]' to '[operating_system_file_na
so based on what your filelistonly shows you, you can
restore database dev
from disk = 'c:\temp\james\dev.bak'
with move 'dev' to 'c:\dev_data.mdf',
move 'dev_log' to 'c:\dev_log.ldf'
Chris