By commenting, you are accepting the IBM commenting guidelines and the DISQUS terms of service.When you create a database in SQL Server and do not specify a file location for your data and log files SQL Server will rely on the default database file locations as defined in the server properties.This article describes how to create and run an update query in an Access desktop database.You use an update query when you have to update or change existing data in a set of records.Microsoft Visual Studio Isolated Shell Environment. To troubleshoot issues with your Windows Update service, view the link below ensure you have Internet or network access, and ensure your Windows Update service can find updates interactively through the Windows Update control panel Error 0x80240042: Exception from HRESULT: 0x80240042." On the following page, setup files will be installed. The installation source for this product is not available. Let's select the first type available "New SQL Server stand-alone installation or add features to an existing installation".You can see these properties for yourself by right-clicking on the instance name inside of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and navigating to the ‘Database Settings’ tab: If we create a simple database we can verify that the files are written to these directories: The second query returns the locations of our data and log files, which we see are the defaults: Changing the defaults is easy enough, we can just update the file locations inside of SSMS.I will create two new folders (C:\SQL\Data\ and C:\SQL\Logs\) to store the data and log files for new databases.

First, like I said earlier, updating those defaults will not migrate existing files.You can see that in the first two rows of the result set.Second, setting the default locations requires a restart of the SQL instance for the changes to take effect.It is important to note that updating these locations will NOT migrate the current data and log files to the new directories.These changes will only apply to new databases created from this point forward.The reason why is because the default locations come from reading registry values.Applies to: SQL Server 2012, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012. Above you will find the first set of Setup Support Rules.