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Restore of database 'DATABASE' failed. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.RelationalEngineTasks)

By: Mohamed Rasik | May,23 2022 | SQL

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing 'DATABASE' database. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended)

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When I tried to restore the SQL database it was failed and got the above message.

Solution:

The same database name is already exists. So, I renamed it and then tried restore. Finally, it works fine.

The below video shows how to restore SQL server database database without this error.