Content Store in SQL - problems after detach/attach

[ukflix]

If I stop the cognos service and detach the content store database, would you expect to be able to attach the database and restart the Cognos service without any issue please?

[simon.hodgkiss]

It should be ok, provided you haven't made any change to the Cognos config inbetween.

If your Cognos environment is a distributed install, then ensure that the dispatcher running the Content Manager service is started first.    If application is started before CM you can sometimes encounter problems with cryptographic keys.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21427302

If you have a test system, perhaps this is one to try there first?

All the best,

Simon

[ukflix]

Thank you for the reply.  It was on a single server installation but luckily was a test system.  I never managed to recover the content DB but had a content export.  I recommend everyone to perform regular content exports  :)

regards.