Aaron Jefferson Villanueva's Blog Site» MSSQL Server 2008 http://malebolgia.shadowsonawall.net Programming / Designing Blogging from windows to mac. Fri, 20 May 2011 12:05:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Cannot Create MSSQL Database. http://malebolgia.shadowsonawall.net/code-programming/database/mssql/file-path-is-compressed-cannot-create-mssql-database.html http://malebolgia.shadowsonawall.net/code-programming/database/mssql/file-path-is-compressed-cannot-create-mssql-database.html#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 21:38:15 +0000 admin http://malebolgia.shadowsonawall.net/?p=275 File Path is compressed Cannot Create MSSQL Database.

While trying to add Database which I want to name "SimpleCMS" to MSSQL server and trying to put it under App_Data folder, I encountered this error.


Error Details:
An exception occured while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch.
(Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)

The file "you mssql db path here" is compressed but does not reside in a read-only database or filegroup. The file must be decompressed. CREATE DATABASE failed. Some file names listed could not be created. Check related errors.
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Cannot Create Database


Most cases this was cause that the Project folder is inside a compressed drive or under a compressed folder, which will save space for your drive.

I just want to share how I resolved this.

Note: That You can uncompressed only the Project folder and leave other compressed.

I'm using windows XP so what I did was 
1.) Right Click on the folder (Project Folder) in General Tab > Click Advanced
2.) Under Compress or Encrypt attributes
3.) uncheck "Compress Contents to save disk space"

Compression

From here I can now add the database "SimpleCMS" under the App_Folder inside the Project Folder.

Database Added

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