Sql server database file location change

Please note that it is recommended to turn JavaScript on for proper working of the Netwrix website. We care about security of your data. Privacy Policy. Native Solution. On the File menu, click Connect Object Explorer. In the Server name text box, type the name of the SQL cluster server. If you do not want to re-type the password every time you connect to the server, tick Remember password. Solomon Rutzky Localdb doesn't run as a service I think. Nope, I use the default location.

Please see my answer and follow the link for more details. But the error also occurs in LocalDB , , and Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Solomon Rutzky Solomon Rutzky This looks like an answer to me. However, the system automatically flagged it as potentially low-quality. Maybe more details would help improve it?

But LocalDB runs in user-space, so the user who logged in is the user that is running it shared instances aside. There is no service, hence no service account. So if you can go to a folder to alter the permissions, then you can access that folder via LocalDB.

These default paths are most likely not changeable in LocalDB. Miles Fan Miles Fan 17 3 3 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Create a new database and do not specify any data, log file locations.

You can use SSMS create database wizard or just run the below command in the new query editor. In the previous step, we modified the default data and log file locations.

Database administrators may need to change the default path of the backup drive as well. It is a good idea to change it as well because if someone initiates the backup for a big database, it may fill up the entire drive as well.

If the default backup drive is same as of data or log file location, it could lead to a big issue for database availability. In this example, we will use the same directory we created in the above example. You may create a new directory in the desired location. We should consider the space requirement of the disk before specifying the directory. We need to use the below parameter in mssql-conf utility to change the default backup location.

Restart the SQL Server service to apply this setting. We can copy the command from the terminal window as well. You can see in below screenshot that it automatically shows the backup location in the default directory. The best part of specifying the default backup location is that you do not need to specify the backup location in the script while taking the backup.

We can just specify the backup file name, and it will place the file at the default directory.