I have seen this question pop-up in the forums and I think I also got an email from one of my blog readers asking how they can move a site collection from one database to another database.
This can be done via SharePoint 2010 Management Shell [aka PowerShell] and this is what you need to do.
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Again this is a reference blog post that I am copying across from Ravi’s blog to have all steps in one place and more so for my own reference
on the web, just in case I lost my drives, laptop and skydrive was unavailable in future… 
This is continuing with method 2 to prepare environment for building a SharePoint 2010 Farm [Dev]
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As a follow up to the previous post, this method was blogged well before Microsoft released WIM2VHD and I still use this method to create Windows Server 2008 R2 VHD using either ISO mounted or the actual media.
To be honest, a vhd is being created right now using this method as I blog this!
Building a SharePoint farm in Hyper-V.. so you may want to follow the series…
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