System Databases

  • I have a SQL server 2008 which came into existence in 2011.But master , model and msdb databases have their own startup dates(date created).

    The dates created are 2003 , 2003 and 2008 respectively.How is this possible.Can someone please explain this.

    I believe tempdb will carry the date when the server was last restarted on.

  • That's when those databases were created. By Microsoft. Not by you.

    Copy a database from one server to another, and you still get the data it was created on the old server. Same thing.

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