Saturday, May 26, 2007 - Posts

Restoring and Attaching is a one way street

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Many people often ask how they can us a database in SQL 2000 that they have attached or restored to SQL2005.

Unfortunately this is a one way street, once upgraded the only way of using a database in a previous version is to copy the schema and data manually. You can't restore or attach a database even if the compatibility has been kept at the previous version.

... To read the complete version of this post go here, http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons/Restoring and Attaching is a one way street