Thank you. If using RESTORE does not work for me (which could be my problem and not SQL Server <g>), I will go with detach/attach.
>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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>Good luck
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>>Hi,
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>>TIA.
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