I had a call today from a colleague to help her out with an issue. Some customer had moved their tempdb and now she had to fix it because the SQL server instance did not come up. Since I handled such a case in the past she asked me to tell her how I've fixed it.
I write this blog post because I had already forgotten a couple of things.
1. Make sure the SQL instance is stopped.
2. Activate the named pipes protocol.
3. Start the SQL instance with the -m option
4. Open a sqlcmd connection with the -e option. Sqlcmd is case sensitive so lookout when you type in the instance name (server\instance).
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