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Question about moving Sharepoint Instance

Date: Sep 17, 2011 Category: Sharepoint Views: 53

I've been tasked with moving my SharePoint database from SQL 2008 to SQL
Express 2008 R2. I was able to detach the database and attach the
databases to SQL Express 2008 R2. When I tried it, I kept getting
errors stating that I didn't have rights to the master database. I
checked and the account I was using has full rights to all the DBs -
even the master.

SQL Express is on a separate box from SharePoint.

Has anyone seen this before? If so, does anyone know how to fix this?

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1 Answer Found

Answer #1 Answered On: Sep 17, 2011

SharePoint can't use a copy of SQL Express that's located on a separate box.
If you are using SQL Express it has to be a standalone install with SQL
Express installed on the same box as SharePoint. I'm also not sure you will
be able to restore a regular SQL 2008 database to SQL Express 2008 r2. For
your environment you would need to stick with regular SQL.

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