How do auto rename datafiles on a multiple restore?

Hello,
i have a SQL 2005 question.
I create multiple databases from a specific backup file.
I want the database to rename the data & log files automatically if
they already exist (due to the prior creation). I know it is possible,
I do not know how to configure it.
YanivYaniv,shalom
Take a look at
ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/tsqlref9/html/15f8affd-8f39-4021-b092-
0379fc6983da.htm
"ALTER DATABASE" topic in the BOL
<yaniv.harpaz@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1153657523.137164.319050@.i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
> i have a SQL 2005 question.
> I create multiple databases from a specific backup file.
> I want the database to rename the data & log files automatically if
> they already exist (due to the prior creation). I know it is possible,
> I do not know how to configure it.
> Yaniv
>|||Hi Uri, thanks for the answer.
Could you gimme a focus (which option are you referring to)?
Shouldn't that be on the instance level?
Yaniv
Uri Dimant wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Yaniv,shalom
> Take a look at
> ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/tsqlref9/html/15f8affd-8f39-4021-b09
2-0379fc6983da.htm
> "ALTER DATABASE" topic in the BOL
>
>
> <yaniv.harpaz@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1153657523.137164.319050@.i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...|||<yaniv.harpaz@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1153657523.137164.319050@.i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
> i have a SQL 2005 question.
> I create multiple databases from a specific backup file.
> I want the database to rename the data & log files automatically if
> they already exist (due to the prior creation). I know it is possible,
> I do not know how to configure it.
>
Check out RESTORE DATABASE ... WITH MOVE in BOL
David|||That's what I am using currently.
I want to be able automatically restore any file I get,
without manually rename each logical file into a new physical one.
David Browne wrote:
> <yaniv.harpaz@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1153657523.137164.319050@.i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Check out RESTORE DATABASE ... WITH MOVE in BOL
>
> David|||<yaniv.harpaz@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1153673350.370810.24470@.s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> That's what I am using currently.
> I want to be able automatically restore any file I get,
> without manually rename each logical file into a new physical one.
Not clear then exactly what you're missing then.
Build the string for the file name and use dynamic SQL to execute it.

> David Browne wrote:
>|||I wanted to know if I can manage without it.
Restore and let the server generate the data & log files automatically
on the default locations.
Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> <yaniv.harpaz@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1153673350.370810.24470@.s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Not clear then exactly what you're missing then.
> Build the string for the file name and use dynamic SQL to execute it.
>|||<yaniv.harpaz@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1153739359.238308.167670@.m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> I wanted to know if I can manage without it.
> Restore and let the server generate the data & log files automatically
> on the default locations.
No. The restore process restores the database to the location indicated
within the backup.
The only way I'm aware of changing this is the WITH MOVE option.

> Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
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possible,[vbcol=seagreen]
>|||I am trying this on one of my servers and it is working and on the
other it doesn't. how come?
I am using the same backup file.
create database "George_1Month001"
go
restore database "George_1Month001" from
disk='c:\MSSQL\BackupFiles\Ver141-Sample' with replace
go
-- Restore into a new database
create database "George_1Month002"
go
restore database "George_1Month002" from
disk='c:\MSSQL\BackupFiles\Ver141-Sample' with replace
go
-- Restore into a new database
create database "George_1Month003"
go
restore database "George_1Month003" from
disk='c:\MSSQL\BackupFiles\Ver141-Sample' with replace
go
Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> <yaniv.harpaz@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1153739359.238308.167670@.m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> No. The restore process restores the database to the location indicated
> within the backup.
> The only way I'm aware of changing this is the WITH MOVE option.
>
> if
> possible,|||yaniv.harpaz@.gmail.com wrote:
> I am trying this on one of my servers and it is working and on the
> other it doesn't. how come?
> I am using the same backup file.
> create database "George_1Month001"
> go
> restore database "George_1Month001" from
> disk='c:\MSSQL\BackupFiles\Ver141-Sample' with replace
> go
> -- Restore into a new database
> create database "George_1Month002"
> go
> restore database "George_1Month002" from
> disk='c:\MSSQL\BackupFiles\Ver141-Sample' with replace
> go
> -- Restore into a new database
> create database "George_1Month003"
> go
> restore database "George_1Month003" from
> disk='c:\MSSQL\BackupFiles\Ver141-Sample' with replace
> go
>
>
Could you post the error message(s) you get ?
Regards
Steen Schlter Persson
Databaseadministrator / Systemadministrator