Introduction
It is not an uncommon requirement to move your database from one SQL Server instance to another instance, either for migration or for setting up a failover scenario. But the problem is, a database relies on some of the data that resides outside the database and hence you have more overhead than just moving your database to a new instance; it means you also need to move/restore data that resides outside of the database (for example logins, etc.) to another instance along with your database. This does not sound very difficult but I must say it’s very tedious and any miss to move even a single object (stored outside the database) to your new instance can prevent your application from running as expected.
