Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Restore Not Working (2005->2005)

I did a backup using SQL Server 2005 Express on 1 machine, and when I tried to restore to SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition (included with VS 2005 Pro), it gives me the following error:

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
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An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The backed-up database has on-disk structure version 611. The server supports version 539 and cannot restore or upgrade this database.
RESTORE FILELIST is terminating abnormally. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3169)

For help, click:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=08.00.2039&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=3169&LinkId=20476

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I looked at the link and it is talking about SQL Server 7 and 2000. I read a few posts about not being able to restore 2005 to 2000, but I have 2005 on both machines. I'm not sure the best way to check, but I know I installed the SQL Server 2005 Developer edition to the new machine recently. Any ideas?

Thanks!

I figured this out. A separate software tool installed SQL Server 2000 for its own use, and when I installed 2005, somehow it did not install. I have fixed it.

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