need help moving System Center SQL Databases to new SQL Server about30 databases to be moved...

Setting up a new install who will be using SharePoint Foundation 2010 in Standalone mode. They do not have SQL SERVER 2008 so need to utilize the Standalone option and the latest version of SQL Server 2008 Express R2. They are just getting started with SharePoint and it is unknown how much the technology will be embraced to afford to purchase SQL Server at this point. I wanted to get that explanation out of the way before everyone tells me the best practice of installing in Farm mode only! I realize the best practice but sometimes we have to roll with the punches because getting a client to begin using SharePoint on their current budget is better than never getting the chance to use it at all.

So SharePoint Foundation 2010 is installed with the default SQL Server 2008 R2 Express instance. Is there a procedure for moving the databases to a new drive? What is the default instance name that is created? I'm having a hard time locating that information in the documentation. I've done this before with WSS 3.0 without issue but wondered if there were any documents on moving the newest databases and what the default instance name is. Thank you in advance.

Rick

I use next code to get server databases

string connectionString = "Data Source=DENIS\\SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=SSPI;";
DataTable tables = new DataTable("Tables");
using (SqlConnection connection =
    new SqlConnection(connectionString))
{
  SqlCommand command = connection.CreateCommand();
  command.CommandText = "sp_databases"; 
  command.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
  connection.Open();
  tables.Load(command.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection));

}

this.dataGridView1.DataSource = tables;

I've got many databases :

- model ( i guess it is system )

- master ( i guess it is system )

- tempdb ( i guess it is system )

- db1 ( my table )

and etc.

How to determinate what table is system.

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/06/26/sql-server-2005-list-all-tables-of-database/

FROM information_schema.Tables

So how to determinate what table is system or not.

Can I get tables of database

Hi,

I was trying to move system databases of SQL Server 2008 on clustered emvironment running on Windows 2008.

I remember while doing the cluster installation somewhere it gave me a recomended option of using Service SID. I think that is the culprit here. Because if you see the "Security" of the DATA folder containing all the MDF and LDF (by default location) you will find a Group named "MSSQLSERVER" is having full access to that directory.

While moving the system databases you need that account (MSSQLSERVER) given access to the parent directory containing the MDF and the LDFs, But unfortunately you cannot add that account manually. Even I tried XCOPY to make sure that while copying the ACLs gets transferred properly to the destination, even that failed.

I think it does provide a solid Security but at the expense of Maintenance, which I cant agree.

Also I forgot to tell you that this Sevice SID option is available if you are using Windows Vista / Windows 2008 or above,

Does anyone has any experience of moving the system databases with Service SID enabled in a cluster environment.

As a testing just try to copy/xcopy/robocopy any folder having MSSQLSERVER group in the ACL and see what happens .. If you are lucky like me then you will get ACCESS DENIED error.

Have anyone faced the same error? I h

Hey,
i have a problem to bring the data from the oracle (external database) and the sql server together (with similar data). The linq entities are linked to each other. The structure is like different countries with different cities and so on. To display these "non original linq objects" i need to put them into entities (linked to each other). Now i add some of them to my sql database. But for every entity i must check the connection to the other objects i don't want to add and delete them (otherwise linq will add all the connected objects, even those I don't want to add). If this goes wrong the whole input-method crashes. Is there any other possibility, except from checking every single entity and removing unwanted connections, to handle this procedure?
Thanks a lot, preg

Hello All !

I have a MSCS cluster Windows 2003 Ent SP2 R2 (2 nodes en Active / Passive) and I install SQL 2005 SP3. I need to install 2 MS SQL Server instances on this cluster.

I have volumes shared disks: - Q for Quorum, M for MSDTC, L for logs, S for Datas, T for TempDB, X for Indexes

I want to put system databases on Y.

I have a doubt:

I have 2 SQL instances (ISQL1 and ISQL2), do I need a separate volume for the system DBs (master, model, msdb, tempdb) per instance?

or  do I need one volume for all the system DB (Y) for the 2 instances?