7deeds » sql-server http://blog.7deeds.com Petros Amiridis - A humble programmer's seven noteworthy actions for the community Mon, 31 May 2010 12:09:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Restore an MSSQL backup to a different database name http://blog.7deeds.com/2008/12/24/restore-an-mssql-backup-to-a-different-database-name/ http://blog.7deeds.com/2008/12/24/restore-an-mssql-backup-to-a-different-database-name/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:35:07 +0000 Petros http://blog.7deeds.com/?p=78 I had a database backup and was trying to restore it but to a different database name than that from where it was backed up.

Let’s say you backed up MyDB and you want to restore it to MyNewDB. You can run the following TSQL:

Of course, the paths and the names of the database should be changed according to your needs.

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