Hello all and thank you in advance.
Recently we were attempting to setup database replication so we would have a copy of our production environment to run reports against. In the process of setting the production server up as the distribution server, the main production database was set as the distribution database. This resulted in our production database being moved under into the system database area. It is now treated as a system database. The database still works correctly, everything it was doing before it is still doing.
So the question I have is this. What is the best method to extricate it? I've been looking for hours for a solution to this problem and not found anything I'm thrilled with. The only thing I can think of would be to backup the table, kill the connections to it, drop it, then restore it to a blank db.
Has anyone seen this happen before, from what I can tell this is supposed to be pretty much impossible. I tried recreating the problem on a few of our test servers and they displayed errors even trying to get this to happen. Any help would be greatly appreciated!