The Art of SQL Server FILESTREAM - Red Gate Software

Chapter 7: FILESTREAM Database Administration-- Detach the databaseUSE masterGOEXEC sp_detach_db @dbname = 'NorthPole'Listing 7-4:Detaching a FILESTREAM-enabled database.Next, locate the primary data file, log file and FILESTREAM data container, and movethem to their new locations. Now we're ready to reattach the database to our SQL Serverinstance. This could be the same instance, a different instance on the same computer, ora different instance on a different computer. Note, though, that if the database is beingattached to a different SQL Server instance, we must ensure that FILESTREAM is enabledon the target server (see Appendix A) and that the target SQL Server instance should berunning the same, or a later, version of SQL Server. You can detach a SQL Server 2008and attach it to a SQL Server 2012 instance, but you cannot detach a SQL Server 2012database and attach it to a SQL Server 2008/R2 instance.Once these files have been moved to the new location, we are ready to attach the databaseas shown in Listing 7-5.-- Attach the FILESTREAM databaseCREATE DATABASE NorthPole ONPRIMARY (NAME = NorthPole,FILENAME = 'C:\Temp\Data\NorthPole.mdf'),FILEGROUP NorthPole_fs CONTAINS FILESTREAM(NAME = NorthPole_fs,FILENAME = 'C:\Temp\FS\NorthPole_fs')LOG ON (NAME = NorthPole_log,FILENAME = 'C:\Temp\Data\NorthPole_log.ldf')FOR ATTACHGOListing 7-5:Attaching a FILESTREAM-enabled database.To verify success, connect to the NorthPole database and fire off a simple query toretrieve the data from the items table.278