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Moving database files to a different location

Sometimes it’s necessary to move the files associated with a database (.mdf, .ldf and .ndf) to a different drive or folder. Fortunately this is fairly easy to achieve, although it does require all users to be disconnected from the database. Here are two ways of doing this using either ALTER DATABASE or the sp_detach_db and sp_attach_db system stored procedures.

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Featured Script

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Checking the status of SQL Server Agent jobs

As a DBA it’s important to quickly identify any issues with SQL Server Agent jobs. This article includes a number of scripts which make it easy to identify which jobs have failed and which are still running as well as generating a history of when each job ran.

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Quick Quiz : DATALENGTH results

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What is the result of the following SQL query ?
DECLARE @MyStr NVARCHAR (100)
SET @MyStr = 'ABC'
SELECT DATALENGTH(@MyStr)
Choose one : a) 3    b) 6    c) 50    d) 100

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