In the Save Scripts step of the wizard, click the Finish button:Įxecute the generated SQL script(s) against the newer SQL instanceĪlthough the procedure listed above should work: In the Summary step of the wizard, click the Next button: In the Types of data to script option, set Schema and data In the Script for Server Version option, set SQL Server 2012 In the Advanced Scripting Options window that will appear:
Specify whether database objects and data will be scripted to a single or multiple files, as well as the path and encoding of the generated scripts: Select the Save scripts to a specific location option In the Set Scripting options step of the wizard: In the Choose Objects step of the wizard, make sure that the Script entire database and all database objects option is selected and click the Next button: In the Introduction step of the wizard, click the Next button: This will invoke the Generate Scripts wizard. In the database context menu, right-click a desired database and navigate to Tasks => Generate Scripts: Start SQL Server Management Studio and connect to the instance that contains the database
If there is no access to the live database from which the backup was taken from: The downside of this solution is that there has to be 3 versions of SQL Server installed and the discontinued or deprecated T-SQL features would have to be manually removed. Restore the SQL Server 2008 backup on SQL Server 2012 Restore the SQL Server 2000 backup on SQL Server 2008Ĭreate a database backup on SQL Server 2008 But, if a SQL Server 2000 backup is tried to be restored on a SQL Server 2012, the following error will be shown:
Restoring a database backup created on a SQL Server 2008 R2 to a SQL Server 2012 instance goes smoothly. Even when the compatibility level of the database that needs to be migrated to an older SQL Server version matches that version, the backup can’t be simply restored. DBAs are well aware that downgrading a SQL Server database cannot be done out of the box.
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