Never had to do that I wouldn't want to because it cannot guaranty data consistency.


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>If you copy a database, without detaching, will you be able to attach it? Recently I a customer send me a database and I attached it to my SQL server. All worked. But when I asked him what he did, he said "I just copied the database to CD."
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>>You can detach database, copy it to the destinaton server and attach it.
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>>>I want to move several databases from a NT 4 machine thats running SQL7 databases to Windows 2000 machine running SQL7.
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>>>Would the easiest way to move the databases be a backup and restore or something like a backup and reattach?
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>>>Please point me to a link to get these instructions.
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