Recently I faced an incident where I needs to MOVE a database which is a publisher, to a different drive. The reason was the insufficient storage. The challenge was to intact the replication settings of the database after the move. So that, I don't have to recreate the replication which is a tedious also a boring task.
As many of you aware, there are several methods can be applied to move a database. Such as, attach / detach method, move database files while the server is shutdown, etc. However none of these methods are a solution in my case, because of the replication factor.
The version of the SQL server I am using is 2008.
Solution
Took a full backup of the database and then restored with “WITH MOVE” option to the new drive.
