I have two servers one in Denmark the other here in the UK. I need to make a copy of a database out of SQL Server Management 2008 (1st server) and place it in SQL Server Management 2012(2nd server). I have tried connecting to the remote server but have been getting difficulties so instead of connecting both up and doing it that way I was hoping there is a function like copy database which could do this for me. I have gone into tasks and copy database in SQL Server 2008 but in the Copy Database Wizard that appears it says "You can use this wizard to move or copy databases from an instance of SQL Server 2000 or later to an instance of SQL Server 2008". I'm looking for something like this that will work for Server 2012.
Copy your database file .mdf and log file .ldf and paste in your SQL Server
Install file in Programs Files->Microsoft SQL Server->MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS->MSSQL->DATA.
Open SQL Server. Right-click on Databases then Select Attach... option.
You can create a backup with the Management Studio on the source and restore it on the target.
You need Management Studio 2012 to make this step. You can then create empty database on 2012 server. Right click on this empty DB->Tasks->Copy database..
Wizard will guide you. You should to this under 2012 Management Studio because it is compatible with 2008 Server - vice versa it will not work.
Of course, cleanest way is to do this via backup (.bak file - Tasks->Backup.. then on 2012 server Tasks->Restore->Files or FileGroups) but you need remote access (RDP) to the server.
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Me
An SQL newbie
My tools
VS Community 2017 v15.9.3 / C#
SQL Server 14.0.2002.14
SSMS 14.0...
What I want to do
I have a file, you say mydatabase.mdb, I am trying to create a connection to the database on SQL Server to access to it.
The database is not actually attached to SQL server, so I try to create my connection and attach it (correct?) using Server Explorer window on VS. I right click on "data connection" then choose "add connection"; in the "add connection dialog" I select the datasource "Database file of Microsoft SQL Server" and I give it the pathname of my file. Finally I hit "Test Connection".
The problem
On "Test Connection" I got this message:
The database 'mydatabase.mdb'cannot be opened because it is version 869. This server support version 852 and earlier.
Could not open new database 'mydatabase.mdb', CREATE DATABASE is aborted.
An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file 'mydatabase.mdb' failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be open or it is located on UNC share
My attempts
I connected the databse to SSMS. When I asked DB version to SSMS, I got: SQL Server 2016 (130). It is not congruent with MS error report. Anyway I changed database version to 2014, then I detached it from server and try again: same result.
Last note: if I create my connection on attached (by SSMS) database, and specifing directly the SQL server (not the file) as datasource, it seems to work. I could use this way, but I'd like to know the cause of the problem.
Can anyone help me?
You may have installed VS 2012, but you are using a SQL 2008 instance: Visual studio does not install SQL for you.
SQL Server 2008 databases are version 655. SQL Server 2008 R2 databases are 661. You are trying to attach an 2008 R2 database to an 2008 instance and this is not supported.
You need to upgrade your SQL instance to at least 2008R2 to open the file (but be aware that if you subsequently attach your existing DBs to the new instance, you won't be able to open then in SQL 2008 again either)
Your SQL Server version (the server that reported the error) is 2016, that is, it supports db version 852 and earlier.
The database that you try to attach is of version 869, this means it was created on SQL Server 2017.
You cannot attach it to an earlier version of SQL Server, so you need to upgrade your server to 2017 or install another instance of SQL Server, SQL Server 2017.
P.S. You CANNOT downgrade database version, i.e. when you said
I changed database version to 2014
it is not true.
Maybe you just change the compatibility level of database, but it's version is still 869.
Compatibility level means a version of cardinality estimator to use + some features, it has nothing to do with database version that refers to physical file format. Database version cannot be downgraded, only upgraded.
P.P.S.
I connected the databse to SSMS
You cannot "connect database to SSMS", you are connecting to server, and the database is also attached to server. And if you were able to attach this database to SQL Server, this means you have SQL Server 2017 already installed.
P.P.P.S. To detect your SQL Server version you shopuld execute this code: select ##version (from SSMS). It seems that you have at least 2 servers, 2016 and 2017 on your pc. You can verify this by opening SQL Server Configuration Manager, or you can use Windows Services to determine how many instances you have and what are their names. Then all you should do is to use the correct instance.
Here is the picture of my SQL Server instances, you can verify your instances by launching services.msc on your pc.
I'm a bit stuck with this scenario. My dev VM has SQL Server 2014 on it, and I've been working on a SQL Server 2008 database. The 2008 database is listed as '2008 compatible'. I now need to put this on a demo server which has an older edition of SQL Server (2012), and I find that 2008 compatible DBs don't create 2008 compatible backups (which I would have thought would be a given).
I'm actually trying to backup from SQL 2014 and recover into SQL Server 2012. How do I get a SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2012 compatible backup file from my 2008 compatible database?
Thanks.
You have to script the SQL database creation, in SQL Server Management Studio :
right click on the DB -> Task -> Generate script
From there a series off dialog to choose what to generate with the SQL command creation and where, in clipboard or file (recommanded for big DB), with optionally the data as some Insert Into SQL command. To find the data option click on the "Advanced" button and search for "Type of data to script"
I have this scenario:
Old Server -> SQL Server 2005 with the current Database
New Server -> SQL Server 2012 no database created.
I want to migrate the old database to the new one.
I've tried to create a backup from the Management Studio 2005 and restore in the 2012. Failed.
I've connected from the 2012 server using Management Studio 2012 to the old server and create the backup. Then restored in the new one. Failed.
The error said that the versions are incompatibles (tried to restored a version from 8.0 to 11.0)
Then, I tried to use the Copy database Wizard. But a error message shows up:
The destination server can not be an instance of SQL Server 2005 Express or higher .
So, how it is supposed to do the backup?
I'm getting the scripts in sql files as last resort...
PS: I've check this thread, I need to migrate to 2008 and then 2012?
How to migrate a database from SQL Server 2005 to 2008 as is?
When I have performed a SQL Server migration in the past I have normally performed a SQL Backup, copy to the new server and then restore, I see in your question that you got an error, update the question with the error and perhaps we can be more specific about what you need to do to make it succeed.
I have also performed a migration by detaching the database from the old server, copying the data and log files to the new server and attaching the databases. This is the method I tend to go with.
The SQL you would use to attach the MDF/LDF files is as follows:
CREATE DATABASE MyAdventureWorks
ON (FILENAME = 'C:\MySQLServer\AdventureWorks_Data.mdf'),
(FILENAME = 'C:\MySQLServer\AdventureWorks_Log.ldf')
FOR ATTACH;
You can refer to the documentation at: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-AU/library/ms190209(v=sql.110).aspx
Please apply latest service pack SP4 on 2005 databases after this take a full backup of 2005 databases and restore it on 2012. I hope, it will work.
I have inherited a VB.net web app that I'm making some changes on. I'm perfectly capable with the programming side (VB and MSSQL) but I'm getting lost with the tools. I was given a zip file of the code and everything. I opened the sln file in Visual Studio 2005 and it worked fairly easily with little modification.
Running the app works perfectly. Problem is, I need to write some new SPs so need the database admin. SQL Server 2008 Express is installed but it doesn't see any database and I have no idea how to import it.
I have a folder App_Data in the project with the file ASPNETDB.MDF. Opening this in VS gived the error:
This server version is not supported. You must have Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 or later.
Any ideas where to go from here?
You need to get Sql Server Management Studio. From there you should be able to connect to the instance of Sql Server Express running on your system and tell it to attach to the .mdf file. This will allow you to use that database from withing sql server and management studio, and you will be able to add your stored procedure. Just remember to detach again when you're done, or you won't be able to use the mdf file as you expect from your app.
Visual Studio uses SMO 2005 to connec to to SQL. The SMO 2005 will not connect to SQL 2008 by design. You need to either upgrade VS to VS 2008, or downgrade Express to Express 2005.
You can't attach mdf file made in SQL Server 2005 to a SQL Server 2008 instance. What you need is to install SQL Server 2005 Express, attach this file, backup database, then restore it on 2008 Server instance and detach the database. You will get properly created for 2008 Server mdf.
Probably asked and answered before, but difficult to search for.
In VS2008 when you right-click App_Data folder and create new database, it attempts to create a SQL Server Express database. Well I have SQL Server 2005 Standard installed and have thus uninstalled Express. How do I get VS2008 configured to know I want SQL Server databases (NOT Express) created?
SQL Server Express databases are SQL Server databases and vice-versa. While is true that the SQL Server 2008 database files format is different from SQL Server 2005 one, whthin the same version (2005, 2005 SP1, 2005 SP2, 2008 , 2008 SP1 etc etc) all SKUs (Express, Standard, Exnterprise etc) have all the same datbase format.
Yout Visual Studio tools are guiding you down the wrong path. You should not use the Solution Explorer to add a database to the App_Data folder. Instead you should use the Server Explorer tool (menu View/Server xplorer or press Ctrl+W,L) and connect to your SQL Server 2005 instance. Then use the Server Explorer tool to explore the database. To connect to the database from your solution, add a connection string to the web.config file.
While you can manage the database objects from the Server Explorer, thar is a horrible way to do it and will cause only pain on the long run. You should instead create deployment scripts with DDL statements and run those scripts when the solution is deployed. This way your database metadata is part of your source control and you can keep track of application database versions, see Version Control and your Database.