about restore

Now, I take over a application, one of the functionality is to restore database, but I find the original code, the original code puzzles me. To all user databases, for example, the restoring procedure of pubs database, is as follows:

1.

RESTORE DATABASE [pubs] FROM DISK = N'C:\backup\model.bak'

WITH FILE = 1, RECOVERY, REPLACE, KEEP_REPLICATION,

MOVE N'modeldev' TO N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\data\pubs_Playback.mdf',

MOVE N'modellog' TO N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\data\pubs_Playback.ldf'

2.

RESTORE DATABASE [pubs] FROM DISK = N'C:\backup\pubs.bak'

WITH STATS=10, FILE = 1, RECOVERY, REPLACE, KEEP_REPLICATION,

MOVE N'pubs' TO N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\data\pubs.mdf',

MOVE N'pubs_log' TO N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\data\pubs_log.ldf'

I dont understand what role the first SQL statement plays.

Or the original code has problem?If you are running these two statements right after one another with nothing in between, then I would say the first statement is useless. I'm not sure why you would recover a backup of the model database into the pubs database and then restore a backup of the pubs database into pubs. I notice it has the KEEP_REPLICATION setting on, but I don't see how that would alter things. Anyone else?