i think detaching will cause the same issues as dropping ... ie) it may not let you if it's processing a rollback. But if it does let you take...

- third party applications that have config files

- third party applications that have hard coded default instance code

- any external vbs (or other) scripts with path references

- anyone...

I did this once, it was not pretty. One thing i was able to do (though not sure if it was during the rollback or before it..) i changed...

Thanks! I did just that and they came back saying it's too much time and effort to keep copying prod to qa for testing. so we're going with the...