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Can 1 Dev VM have 2 AxDB ?

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Posted on by VoltesDev

Hi,

When we have 1 VM, it is from downloadable VHD from LCS, can we have 2 DB : AXDB ?

Reason is I need to refer to standard F&O along with its Contoso Demo data, whereby in my VM now only have my company Demo Data.

But I also wondering what would happened with the PackageLocalDirectory since I have my customization over there.

Thanks,

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Martin Dráb 232,978 Most Valuable Professional on at

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RE: Can 1 Dev VM have 2 AxDB ?

I think that what you see in LCS are importable data packages with data for some specific business areas, not full DB backups. Download a package to see it for yourself.

I'm not aware of standard DB backups being available in LCS.
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RE: Can 1 Dev VM have 2 AxDB ?

ok, this is probably some stupid question, but since my Dev VM's DB now already replaced (few months ago) with company's data and I didn't have the original Demo data backup DB, am I gonna need to download VHD again ? or there is a database backup somewhere in LCS ?

FYI, I'm take a look at my LCS in SharedAssetLibrary, there is no Database Backup (outside my project) but there are some Demo data package, may I know what are those and can I use it ?

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Martin Dráb 232,978 Most Valuable Professional on at

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RE: Can 1 Dev VM have 2 AxDB ?

Strictly speaking, the answer is no - you can't have two databases with the same name.

But you can have two databases and switch them on demand. One approach is renaming database - the one you want to use will be called AxDB and other will have a different name. Another approach (one that I use) is keeping DBs with descriptive names and telling F&O which DB it should use. It's defined in web.config; I use a Powershell script to switch it.

Nothing happens with your files in PackageLocalDirectory. It has nothing to do with the database.