Working in the development/testing environments that I do, this is an error I see frequently as developers are moving/copying staging or test databases from one SQL instance to another. The error can pop up when you try to restore a database on top of an existing database of the same name: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existin...
Posted by Greg LeClair on
Wednesday, 16 Dec 2009 03:29.
Welcome to my SQL Server blog! The idea here is to share my everyday experiences with SQL server – what questions or issues did I run into today? How were they solved? How could they have been avoided? What should I be looking for next time? I’ll post about anything I find useful, interesting or weird. (I like weird stuff.) I’ll try to stick to SQL server topics, but no promises. I do a l...
Posted by Greg LeClair on
Tuesday, 15 Dec 2009 02:44.