A Script A Day - Day 29 - The Importance of Being Idle

Today’s script is also one I used in my migration on Wednesday.  It again uses string manipulation to generate a script, this time the restore database script.  Now granted this quick script wouldn't work if there are any secondary data files and is reliant on the logical file names and file locations etc etc. 

The point of me using this script is because I am very anal when it comes to standards, I like to make sure drive letters and paths are consistent as well as naming conventions for all databases and objects.  Adhering to standards makes your life as a DBA much easier especially when it comes to tasks like migrations.

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-- Change database context

USE master;

GO

-- Create restore database script

SELECT

      'RESTORE DATABASE ' + [name] + ' FROM DISK = ''D:\Migration\Backup\' + [name] + '_migration_20120301.bak''' +

      ' WITH REPLACE, MOVE ''' + [name] + '_Data''' + ' TO ''D:\Data\' + [name] + '_Data.mdf'',' + ' MOVE ''' + [name] + '_Log''' + ' TO ''L:\Log\' + [name] + '_Log.ldf'';'

FROM

      sysdatabases;

GO

Enjoy!

Chris