Hi.
Im very new to SQLs, by very new, I mean as close to 0 as you can get ;)
I have a project that im working on, a client is getting a new server to maintain the increasing load and size of their current SQL server.
So this is what I have done:
Installed the new machine with Windows 2008 R2 enterprise, Microsoft SQL R2.
The client wanted to test run the new machine first to see that everything worked as it should.
So, since I dident know how to export or move the databases, what I did was that I restored a full backup of the old database server into the new one(since it was only for testing, this worked fine)
Now, to my questions.
This friday, they will shut their old SQL down. They want me to export all the data from the old one to the new one.
So I have a few questions about this. I hope someone has time to answer.
#1: Does anyone have a guide, step-by-step, how you export an entire SQL server to another(all the databases)
#2: Do I have to remove all the databases that are on the new server?(the ones I restored from the backup) or are these automaticlly overwriten when I export the databases from the old one?
#3: Is there anything specific that I need to consider before/during/after I do this?
I would realy appriciate some assistance.
Thanks in advance for the help
Regards
Me