Day: April 9, 2018

Since the release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018, on the 1^st December 2018, we have been busy with a few upgrade projects for clients. Our standard recommendation is to have a standalone test system for performing UAT and this means backing up and restoring databases.

While the backups are easy to do, the restores can be trickier when one database has been restored into another, as this means the logical file name will not match the physical one.

This isn’t an issue when the client has only a handful of databases, but when there are 30 or even a hundred, it becomes much more of an issue. However, you can select database details in SQL Server from the sys.master_files single, system-wide view.

This script creates an alter script for all Dynamics GP company databases’ logical file names which will ensure that all databases have a logical filename which matches the physical name. The script is configured with the assumption that the system database is called DYNAMICS; if you are using a named system database, change the highlighted section:

/*
Created by Ian Grieve of azurecurve|Ramblings of a Dynamics GP Consultant (https://www.azurecurve.co.uk)
This code is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Int).
*/
USE DYNAMICS
GO

SELECT
	CASE WHEN ['databases'].name LIKE '%Dat%' THEN
	'ALTER DATABASE
		' + ['Company Master'].INTERID + '
	MODIFY FILE 
		(
		NAME = [' + RTRIM(['databases'].name) + ']
		,NEWNAME = [GPS' + RTRIM(['Company Master'].INTERID) + 'Dat.mdf]
		)
	 GO'
	ELSE
	'ALTER DATABASE
		' + ['Company Master'].INTERID + '
	MODIFY FILE 
		(
		NAME = [' + RTRIM(['databases'].name) + ']
		,NEWNAME = [GPS' + RTRIM(['Company Master'].INTERID) + 'Log.ldf]
		)
	 GO'
	 END
FROM
	SY01500 AS ['Company Master']
INNER JOIN
	sys.master_files AS ['databases']
		ON
			DB_NAME(['databases'].database_id) = ['Company Master'].INTERID
WHERE
	['Company Master'].CMPANYID > 0
AND
	(RTRIM(['databases'].name) <> 'GPS' + RTRIM(['Company Master'].INTERID) + 'Dat.mdf'
AND
	RTRIM(['databases'].name) <> 'GPS' + RTRIM(['Company Master'].INTERID) + 'Logldf')
ORDER BY
	['Company Master'].INTERID
	,['databases'].name