Comments on: SQL SERVER – 2005 Take Off Line or Detach Database http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/ Personal Notes of Pinal Dave Thu, 23 May 2013 14:22:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #026 | SQL Server Journey with SQL Authority http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-464688 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:31:10 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-464688 [...] Take Off Line or Detach Database Using the alter database statement (SQL Server 2k and beyond) is the preferred method. The rollback after statement will force currently executing statements to rollback after N seconds. [...]

]]> By: Fabian AM http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-351462 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:54:12 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-351462 Thanks, excellent!!

]]> By: Karl http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-308441 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:56:46 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-308441 Does anyone know what options are used if you use the UI to take the DB offline?

]]> By: Niels Brinch http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-303939 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:49:44 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-303939 Great little post. I find myself coming back here every time I need to take a database offline :)

]]> By: Pandian http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-285167 Wed, 16 May 2012 15:46:53 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-285167 Good One. Thanks for this. It helped to turn off the junk databases.

]]> By: Jill J. http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-269431 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:36:46 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-269431 If I take a SQL Server 2000 db offline with the ALTER cmd, can I then put it back online with another ALTER cmd? Or since it’s already offline… how can I access it, to put it back online????

]]> By: madhivanan http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-109572 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:40:53 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-109572 Post the update code that you used

]]> By: Falguni http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-109398 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 05:13:00 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-109398 Hi,

I have a problem. There is a table in my database called Corporates. It has a Field which contains the Domain name.

When i open the site the URL of the Site is fetched from the Domain Name field of the Table. I need to update the Domain Name field for testing purpose with Localhost. After testing when i again Update the Domain Name field with the Original Domain Name of the Site it automatically get updated to LocalHost.

I checked the code to see if it has been coded to update but to no avail. I dont understand why is this happening. I need to solve this problem urgently. Any help is greatly appreciated.

]]> By: ssysadmin http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-83651 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:29:29 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-83651 Can you help me to attach databases in bulk, i.e. if there are 100 databases and I’m needed to migrate in bulk to other server through script?
Currently I hosted databases on SQL Server 2005 SP2 x64 bit. I’m planning to upgrade my database server to SQL Server 2008 R2 x64, and it’s not supported to upgrade SQL Server 2008 R2 X64 from SQL Server 2005 x64 SP2 (according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143393.aspx).

what is your suggestion?
I am planning to install new version of SQL Server 2008 Rs x64 and migrate all databases to new instance, that is why I am looking for script for attaching SQL Server in bulk.

Thank you.

]]> By: Altax http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-82346 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:27:01 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-82346 Thanks for the information. That was a great post.

]]> By: Himanshu http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-80102 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:14:23 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-80102 Hi..

I have an issue, Actually my all tables have schema user. and all tables are looks like user.tablname. Now if i restore this backup into new server then I am unable to create database user “user” because it shows error user already exits. And if I create another user then I unable to access table by just its name (I can access by schemaname.tablename) , I want to change schema of all tables at once . Please help me regarding this.

Himanshu Kumar Pant
for eWebGuru.com

]]> By: SQL SERVER – T-SQL Script to Take Database Offline – Take Database Online Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-66561 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:31:26 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-66561 [...] 24, 2010 by pinaldave Blog reader Joyesh Mitra recently left a comment to one of my very old posts about SQL SERVER – 2005 Take Off Line or [...]

]]> By: Joyesh Mitra http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-65918 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:23:31 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-65918 How to take database online. this is urgent. I can not find in your blog

]]> By: Shafi http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-58056 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:30:28 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-58056 I assume using the command -

ALTER DATABASE [mydb] SET OFFLINE WITH
ROLLBACK AFTER 30 SECONDS

will close the existing connections as I want to restore my DB and restore command fails with

“Exclusive access could not be obtained because the database is in use.”

Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks

]]> By: riyo http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-56720 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:22:40 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-56720 I tried to Drop database from web page, by executing SQL Command, then show the result, done or error. And I got this message : Cannot drop database “detach” because it is currently in use.

Thanks for your help.

]]> By: jelong http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-48037 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:27:25 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-48037 Carlos,
for SQL Server 6.5, you can use sp_dboption dbname, offline, true

]]> By: komninos http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-47157 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:25:22 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-47157 i want to know how i can create an offline server to play for example Lineage-i own sql and navicat

]]> By: komninos http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-47156 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:23:58 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-47156 hi i want to know how i can create an offline server to play for example Lineage-i own SQL and navicat

]]> By: Fabio http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-44696 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:21:29 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-44696 Hello,
does a offline database uses less memory ?

]]> By: Dinesh http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-43771 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:44:52 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-43771 Hi Pinal,

1.Can we shrink the log file after taking database into offline?

]]> By: Andy Loh http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-39943 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:36:20 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-39943 how to shrink transaction loh in sql 2005.

]]> By: Harinath_hyd http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-35803 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:27:32 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-35803 Hi dave
i want to lock the record and send the message to user who try to access the same record for certain time
can u help me out .

]]> By: RichSeattle http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-35526 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:50:07 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-35526 Magnus, sure it can. A quick way to do this is simply to use a cursor and a query similar to -

select name from sysdatabases where name not in (‘master’, ‘msdb’, ‘model’, ‘tempdb’, ‘donttakeoffline’)

*note ‘donttakeoffline’ is the name of a db you might want to exclude, the others you shot NOT take offline)

Have the cursor dynamically build the command and exec such as this –

set @cmd = ‘Alter database ‘ + @dbname + ‘ set offline with rollback immediate’
exec (@cmd)

If you want to exclude them you can exclude from the original query for the cursor or use an IF statement example

If @dbname != ‘dontoffline’
begin
exec @cmd
else
end

Mind you, doing this can be dangerous and is not 100% certain. Most things like this should be done one at a time and/or monitored very closely.

If I were going to do this, I would have it record into a table somewhere of the status of taking it offline and when it was taken offline for each DB.

*not responsible for people breaking their DB using this information*

]]> By: Magnus http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-33795 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:58:23 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-33795 Hi Dave!

ALTER DATABASE [mydb] SET OFFLINE WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

Works just fine but if I want to take many DBs (354) offline with a script at the same time. Can that be done. I also what to exclude some DBs from beeing taken offline.

/Magnus

]]> By: Carlos http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/sql-server-2005-take-off-line-or-detach-database/#comment-15983 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:14:59 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/25/take-sql-server-2005-off-line-or-detach-the-database/#comment-15983 And SQL sERVER 6.5? wATH

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