Moving SharePoint DataBase to another SQL Server

This is a guide I wrote to help make this procedure as easy as it can.
You can find more information about "Moving SP to another SQL server" in this site:
microsoft

It is essential to know if you are moving the SP DB to to a different database server or a server with the same name!

This guide is for moving the DB's to a different database server.

Part 1

On the server that is running the Central Administration Web site, stop the following services:
· Microsoft Single Sign-On service
· Office Document Conversions Launcher service
· Office Document Conversions Load Balancer service
· Office SharePoint Server Search service
· Windows SharePoint Services Administration service
· Windows SharePoint Services Search service
· Windows SharePoint Services Timer service
· Windows SharePoint Services Tracing service
· Windows SharePoint Services VSS Writer service

Stop the IIS – CMD - iisreset /stop.

Backup the Content databases for the following SP sites :
· SP site Content DB
· SP Mysite Content DB
· Shared Services DB
· Shared Services Search DB

Backup the top level site with STSADM command:
Stsadm –o backup –url http://spsite/ –filename %system root%:\SPsite.bak
Stsadm –o backup – url http://spmysite/ –filename %system root%:\SPmysite.bak

Part 2

Copy the DB's (LDF & MDF) to the new SQL server:
· SP site Content DB
· SP Mysite Content DB
· Shared Services DB
· Shared Services Search DB

Attach the DB's to the new SQL server – Take online

Run the STSADM command:
stsadm -o renameserver -oldservername -newservername

You can find more about "renameserver" command in this link:
STSADM

Part 3

Log in to the Central Admin.
Start up and configure the services on the farm
Create all web applications exactly as before – use temp DB when you build the DB's.
Redirect the web application to the origin DB's - Application management > content database:
Disconnect all the DB’s for the web applications
Reconnect the origin DB's.

In Central Administration – restore the SSP: Central Administration > Application Management > Manage this Farm's Shared Services - restore the SSP

It worked for me, I hope it'll work for you…

Rename Content DB when moving Databases from MOSS servers

When we need to copy/move Database from MOSS server to another MOSS, there are times that we need to change the Content DB (WSS_Content) name.

The fastest way to do so is to backup the DataBase on the source server SQL and restore the DataBase to the destination server SQL. On the restore window in SQL we can determine the name of the DataBase that we want to restore. Now we can name the DataBase whatever we want.