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viperbyte
Posting Yak Master

132 Posts

Posted - 2013-11-11 : 08:50:22
Good morning everybody.

Now that I'm finished with my asp.net web app I need to move the database which is LocalDB to SQL Server. The source database is in an app_data folder in an asp.net project. How do you guys move a database of that kind to an SQL Server? I'd be happy with scripting, graphical or any kind of solution. I'm hoping I won't have to resort to creating the db by hand.

James K
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

3873 Posts

Posted - 2013-11-11 : 09:06:21
Startup SQL Server Management Studio and connect to (localDB)\V11.0. If you don't see the database, right-click on Databases, select attach, find your database file and attach it. Then you can take a backup and restore that backup onto other servers.

I suppose you could take the database file directly and attach that to other servers as well, but for reasons that I don't recall, whenever I had to do this (which was not in the recent past), I backed it up and then ported to other servers.

If you are using MVC4/Entity Framework with migration scripts, you can point your connection string to the target server and run the migration scripts.
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viperbyte
Posting Yak Master

132 Posts

Posted - 2013-11-11 : 14:06:51
Thank you very much.
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