SQL DBA Posts - How to change location of database data or Log files?

There are multiple ways to that you can use to change location of database files, below is the easy way to achieve the goal.

1-      Bring the database that you would like to relocate offline

ALTER DATABASE  mydatabase SET OFFLINE;

2-      Move database files (mdf, ndf, ldfs) manually from your current location to target location.

3-   USE master;

   GO

   ALTER DATABASE mydatabase

   MODIFY FILE

  (NAME =  File_logical_name,FILENAME='D:\SQLAgeDataFiles\mydata.mdf' );

4-      ALTER DATABASE mydatabase SET ONLINE;

Note: Same procedure can be used to move other files such as ndf and ldf files.