I have a database with the compatibility level 80. However, it is on a SQL Server 2005 Instance.
I need to move that database to SQL Server 2000 Instance.
I can not use the script of db because it contains lots of linked server, missing objects, same server db references which is painful to handle.
How can I move db to SQL Server 2000 without using dbscript?
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How open my SQLServer2008R2 database in SQLServer2012. When I open the database these problems happened:
I can't edit and open tables because this error show:
Invalid prefix and suffix characters.
When I want design tables this error show:
The backend version isn't supported to design database diagram or tables.
When you detach and attach database, the compatibility level of old database is maintained. It is one of the limitations of detach and attach method.
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If we attach a database having a higher version, SQL Server maintains
the database compatibility. We can change the compatibility level once
the database is online
Once you change the compatibility level to suit SQL Server 2012, you can use the new features of the SQL Server 2012.
Read more on upgrading database
ALTER DATABASE DatabaseName SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 110
GO
I remember myself restoring a db on linux side. I used mysql dump and before I could restore this backup on the other server I had to create a DB with the same name.
Now I am going to switch the server on windows side using SQL 2012. I am backupping many SQL DB's and call them for now db1.bak , db2.bak...
When I now want to restore them on the new server, do I need to create a "structure" first with the same DB names or can I simply restore my DB's with the restore command one by one.
Is there anything else I should prepare? Thanks
A SQL Server database backup contains the structure and the data, so if you have run a full backup on one SQL Server 2012 server, you can restore this onto another SQL Server 2012 + server instance without having to create an empty database first.
Is there a way to get SQL Server 2005 to query 3 or more separate Access databases (each returning 1 record) in one SQL statement?
Yes, but it will require you to create a Linked Server instance for each Access database. See here for details about creating Linked Server instances on SQL Server 2005 to MS Access.
Once you have those in place, you can query SQL Server and it will pass on the queries to the respective Access databases based on using the Linked Server instance notation when specifying tables in your SQL Server queries.
What you want is a Linked Server for each of the Access databases.
Just be aware that in SQL 2005 64-bit you won't be querying current versions of Access or Excel through linked servers any time soon.
Yes, set them up as linked servers using sp_addlinkedserver.
Between SQL 2000 and 2005 MS changed the syntax to connect to a local database from (local) to .\instanceName.
I have a client who has been using (local)\instanceName to connect to local SQL Server 2005 databases. Usually it works fine, but sometimes it doesn't and he has been using PCname\instanceName.
Why does this sometimes fail?
You can define alias for your instance in sql server configuration manager. You can define multiple aliases for same instace, so both (loacl) and instanceName will work.
In SQL Server 2005 in the sys.servers information about mapped remote SQL Server instance is stored.
How were remote servers mapped in SQL Server 2000?
BR, Adam
Based upon the compatibility table in 2005 sys.sysservers, mentioned in this MSDN library page, I would say that the catalogue view/ system table is called sysservers in 2000.