Default Directories

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Default Directories

Greg Larsen

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February 5, 2003 at 8:52 am

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When you create a database without specifying a location for the DATA and LOG SQL Server places them in the default location (c:\mssql\data).
Since we have split our DATA and LOG's onto different drives, I was wondering if there is a config parm or reg entry to specify a default directory for DATA and another one for LOG files. I've only found SQLDataRoot and SQLPath, but both of these are set to
c:\mssql. Is there a way to specify default locations for LOGS and DATA files for a database?
I'm guessing there is not, so the DBA's will need to remember to specify a location at the time the database is allocated, or move it after creating to get the LOG and DATA to go do separate drives.
Gregory Larsen, DBA
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Tad Say Hey Kid Points: 701 More actions · Answer 1

Look at your SQL Server Properties via EM and click on the database settings tab. Towards the bottom you'll see the "Default data directory" and "Default log directory" settings. Make your changes there.

Greg Larsen SSC-Insane Points: 20961 More actions · Answer 2

To easy. Why was I trying to make this a registry hack.

Thanks.

Gregory Larsen, DBA

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sarmistead SSCommitted Points: 1671 More actions · Answer 3

You can establish default folder locations for both data and log files through EM - select server properties and click on the "Database Properties" tab.

Steve Armistead,

Database Administration

Panther Systems Northwest, Inc.

Vancouver, WA

Steve

sarmistead SSCommitted Points: 1671 More actions · Answer 4

I ran a trace when changing the default data file location in EM and saw the following query result:

xp_instance_regwrite N'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE',N'Software\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\MSSQLServer',N'DefaultData',REG_SZ,N'C:\MSSQL\Data\'