How to make database offline or online

Database is made offline to move its physical files. There can be many ways to make a database offline. But there are three main methods which are used frequently to make the database offline. These methods are given below:-

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1)With the help of Alter database Command:-

We can make the database offline or online with the help of the Alter database command. The Alter Database command to make the database offline is :-

    ALTER DATABASE database name SET Offline

If we want to make the database online we can use the following Alter Database command:-

  ALTER DATABASE database name SET Online

2)With the help of the Db_options:-

 We can also use the db_options command to make a database offline or online.To make a database offline we can use the following command:-

sp_dboption databasename ,’offline’,true

To make the database online we can use the following command:-

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sp_dboption databasename ,’offline’,false

3)With the help of Sql server management studio:-

We can also use the Sql server management studio to make a database offline as shown in the given figure.
To make database offline we have to follow steps show in fig 1 and to bring back the database online we needs to follows the step shown in fig 2:-