I suspect that the IT manager who told me that he just "copied" the database delegated the job to someone else in his department and they actually detached it before putting on the CD. Otherwise, detaching would not a unnecessary step.
>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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