How to update the system tables for a database

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I have a screwy database problem. As you can see in the image provided here that there are two entries for the "name" property in the "sys.database_files" table that contain the suffixes .ldf and .mdf (CrucibleTARS.mdf and CrucibleTARS_log.ldf) where all of the other database entries do not (Crucible and Crucible_log). Does anyone know how to update the value in the underlying system tables for these fields? The fallout from this is that for the CrucibleTARS database I am unable to shrink the log file.

Thanks for your help in advance,

CTBlankenship

What I have tried:

Since these queries appeared to display the results that are a value from the sys.database_files, I wrote a quick update to change the value of the [name] property from "CrucibleTARS.mdf" to simply "CrucibleTARS". Come to find out these aren't tables but are views of the underlying system tables. So, the attempted UPDATE command failed.

Posted 30-Oct-19 4:13am

Charles T. Blankenship

Updated 30-Oct-19 6:38am

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No answer for your question, but how did you do that screen capture with the jaggies? :)

Posted 30-Oct-19 6:39am

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Charles T. Blankenship 30-Oct-19 12:43pm

SnagIt by TechSmith ... it's a great program ... used it for years to create my user docs ... https://www.techsmith.com/. There is a free version but I bought it myself.

RickZeeland 30-Oct-19 14:05pm

It's probably one of these: https://www.slant.co/topics/4040/~screen-capture-tools-for-windows

Charles T. Blankenship 30-Oct-19 15:23pm

SnagIt Editor from TechSmith https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html

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RickZeeland · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-30T04:17:00

Solution 1

See this CodeProject tip: Rename a Database and its MDF and LDF files in SQL Server[^]

Another option might be to use a recovery tool: sql-recovery-software[^]
But this is only a wild guess ...

Posted 30-Oct-19 4:17am

RickZeeland

Updated 30-Oct-19 4:24am

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MadMyche 30-Oct-19 10:49am

My thoughts exactly