[dba-SQLServer] SQL Server "locks up"

Francisco Tapia fhtapia at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 15:18:21 CDT 2009


>
> When you are doing the install you can specify the default location of
> these files (i'll google for how to change this), also for existing
> databases just detach and re-attach with the log file on it's specific
> location, for new databases you can specify the new location for log files,
> none of the existing databases will automatically move the log files to a
> new location, this must be done manually.
>
>
> -Francisco
> http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More...
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:54 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:
>
>> Is there a generic setting to tell SQL Server to place log files on a
>> specific drive?  Is it by the
>> database?  How is this done?  I am going to set up a RAID 1 pair of 512
>> gig drives just to put the
>> log files on, but I do not know how to specify that logs should go there.
>>
>> My business has me setting up a new database for each order.  In fact what
>> I actually do is copy an
>> existing "template" database, renaming it to the order name.  The log
>> files can get pretty large
>> (tens of gigs) depending on the order and processing involved.  it would
>> be nice not to have to
>> remember to tell SQL Server to place the logs in a specific place each
>> time I create a database.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>
>> <snip>



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