I recently went through this exercise. The way I was doing it, I detached database from SQL 2005. Then made a copy of it to a new directory. I used whatever directory I wanted my SQL 2008 data to be located.
In SQL 2008 I attached the database from the new directory.

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>Hi,
>
>I want to test connecting my VFP app to SQL 2008 and for that I decided to convert a SQL Server 2005 database to SQL 2008. So my plan is:
>1. Make a backup of the database in SQL Server 2005.
>2. Copy the backup files to a different folder
>3. Restore the backup files into the SQL Server 2008.
>
>Is the above correct approach? And on step 3, do I need to create a database in SQL Server 2008 of the same name first, or can I restore the backup in another way?
>
>TIA.