I have some databases on a SQL Server 2008 instance. I want to report on them so I installed SSRS 2008, which is obviously ancient. I know SSRS 2008 R2 uses Report Builder 3.0 though so I was blithly confident 2008 does too, but it turns out that SQL Server 2008 uses Report Builder 1.0 which is quite different.
I want to know if I can install SSRS 2008 R2 and hook it up to the SQL Server 2008 database, or will this simply not work.
I know the right answer is to upgrade all the things, but alas that's not possible at the moment.
Unfortunately, SSRS2008R2 documentation seems is not available anymore.
However, according to official docs of newer release: Even SSRS 2014 can run on following instances:
SQL Server 2014
SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2008 R2
SQL Server 2008
SQL Server 2005
Therefore, assumption that SSRS 2008R2 with a high probability will run without problems on SQL 2008 data engine
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Can I create a snapshot from SQL Server 2012 on a SQL Server 2008 R2 Server?
The goal is to build reporting and queries without locking the live database.
I need only a DB copy (Getdate()-1)
No, the SQL Server 2012 snapshot has specific SQL Server 2012 features in it that are not compatible with SQL Server 2008 R2. These are incompatibilities that you will not see. They are deep in the SQL Server engine. You cannot do this.
It's a similar concept to trying to restore a SQL Server 2012 database backup to a SQL Server 2008 R2 instance. The higher database version cannot backstep to a lower version.
You need to use a SQL Server of the same level or higher (I believe or higher) for your snapshot server.
We restored our TFS 2013 database backups on separate data tier with SQL Server 2012. Now I am trying to add these databases to TFS server (it's a sandpit tier), where I have a SQL Server 2008 R2 version. While running app tier wizard, I added SQL instance but it is throwing an error:
TF400860: the current version of following service is not supported registry Version 5, min version 5
Both servers have same version of TFS (TFS 2013.5)
Can anyone advise how to fix this?
The minimum SQL version for 2013 is SQL 2012 with SP1 https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/setup-admin/requirements
The minimum SQL server requirement for TFS 2013 is SQL server 2008 R2 (SP1).
The solution for this error is, we need to change the SQL server instance availability group as primary by logging in to same server
We have 4 data tiers, which are in sync, I tried it and I got it with SQL version 2008 R2. No need of SQL version 2012 or higher.
Thanks
I use SQL Server 2008 R2 as the database engine. With my MSDN subscription, I can get SQL Server 2012 for development use. Since I noticed some cool things in 2012 SSMS, my question is that if I only use 2012 SSMS and keep 2008 R2 as the database engine, will there be any difference in scripts' generation or any other effects?
Thanks.
UPDATE 1:
Oh yes, I saw this page: SQL Server Database Engine Backward Compatibility, but it is not exactly what I am looking for.
No, there should be no ill effects.
SSMS 2012 should generate scripts that are compatible with the database version that is being actively used.
I'm currently using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ver. 9.00.4035.00 to manage my SQL Server 2005 (90) compatible databases.
Will I encounter problems should I attempt to upgrade the Management Studio software to SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 to manage MSSQL 2005 DB instances? I will not be upgrading the version of the database instance.
My personal expreience says that you wont have any migration issues if you have sql server 2005 db instances. The attach and detach of DB is same in 2008 version. Only thing is, once you use a 2005 instance DB and attach it to 2008 version, it cannot be used with 2005 version again. Apart from that, from functionality point of view, there are no issues, you can continue to use the 2005 version DB on 2008 as normal.
link for moving the DB from 2005 to 2008 -
http://www.packtpub.com/article/moving-a-database-from-sql-server-2005-to-sql-server-2008-in-three-steps
EDIT: Incase you want to move back to 2005 version for same DB instance, I dont think it will be possible except for doing a data export import onto new 2005 DB instance.
Can I use Reporting Services 2008 with SQL Server 2005 database?
Do I need both licenses (for SQL server 2008 and SQL server 2005)
Do I need two instances (SQL Server 2008 and Sql server 2005) or can Reporting Services 2008 be "installed" as add on to Sql server 2005?
Thanks for answers,
Matra
Yes, you can install the database on a SQL Server 2005 instance. However, you very much need another license for SSRS 2008. It's an entirely different product. It is, by far, not just a SQL Server 2005 "add-on."