Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 01/27/07 20:53

rsyring@gmail.com (rsyring@gmail.com) writes:
> I have a TSQL script that restores a production database to my local
> development machine. Every time I do a restore, I have to go into
> Enterprise Manager and set the recover model to simple to prevent
> Windows XP Backup from having shadow copy problems (that is a rant in
> and of itself). I would like to just add a statement at the bottom of
> the script to do this, but have yet to find the proper commands
> documented. It seems that the instructions that come with the server
> only mention enterprise manager.

ALTER DATABASE db SET RECOVERY SIMPLE


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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