Hey guys, I just posted a new vid on how to use Regex to format DB files so you can easily move them.
The situation is this… you’ve got lots of DBs you want to move to a new drive or to a new server, and you need to write the ALTER DATABASE commands to move all the files, then you need to script the move statements at the cmdline like Powershell. The problem is to be effective, you need some code to parse the filename from the rest of the path.
Here I’m going to show you how to use Regex to parse that out so you can easily build the statements you need. I can write the script to move hundreds of DB files in under a minute. Come watch.
http://midnightdba.itbookworm.com/Video/Watch?VideoId=407

And here’s the demo code so you can follow along.
MoveDBFiles