Question

I am writing a maintenance plan where databases will be detached then the content of the folder it resided in will be moved to another drive for archiving.

declare @db varchar(500), @path varchar(max), @SQL varchar(max)

declare u_cur cursor fast_forward for
    select name, [filename] from #DbsToBeDetached
open u_cur

fetch next from u_cur into @db, @path
while (@@FETCH_STATUS = 0)
begin
    SET @SQL = 'ALTER DATABASE ' + @db + ' SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE;'

    EXEC(@SQL)      

    EXEC sp_detach_db @db, 'true';

    set @path = MagicFunction(@path)

    exec sp_xp_cmdshell 'move /Y "' + @path + '" "e:\archive\"' + @db + '"'

    fetch next from u_cur into @db, @path
end
close u_cur
deallocate u_cur

The only thing I am stuck on is what do I do where it says MagicFunction to turn a path like

D:\data\conversions\wi_sql2005\30950 example database\30950_data.mdf

to

D:\data\conversions\wi_sql2005\30950 example database

Answer 1

You could create a function using the following logic (or just use the SQL inline):

DECLARE @fileName VARCHAR(100)
SET     @fileName = 'D:\data\conversions\wi_sql2005\30950 example database\30950_data.mdf'
SELECT LEFT(@fileName, LEN(@fileName) - CHARINDEX('\', REVERSE(@fileName)))