Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Erland Sommarskog Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver,microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming Subject: Re: SSE 2008: Backup and Restore of Databases Across Different Subversions Followup-To: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:28:41 +0200 Organization: Erland Sommarskog Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <4dabdd29$0$32470$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <4dabdd89$0$32470$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="DD6dU+BfJNjsjSP4/K/V7w"; logging-data="9797"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+BuUCET+efTM2kd00HL6/W" User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 Mime-proxy/2.1.c.0 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WeDskikvNVucYNtVBPjP6jTQ39I= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:194 Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:42:50 +0200, Henk van den Berg > wrote: > >>Oops, unintentionally hit send >>I was gonna add: As it would seem, 2K8 cannot restore 2K8 R2 databases > > That seems very strange to me. What big change was there? Generally, if there is a difference in the middle number in the version number (00 vs. 50), you can expect differences. In this particular case the difference is one single feature, as far as I know, Unicode compression. (Which ironically is available only in Enterprise Edition.) R2 was as far as the Database Engine is concerned a miniscule release. But R2 includes tons of stuff in the BI area. > How do I download R2? I have tried in the past, but links were > not accurate, and I got something that was incomplete and another > time, I think it was the same as I already had. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22SQL+Server+2008+R2+Express%22+download Then again, despite your incident with the backup, I would not really recommend the rush. -- Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se Links for SQL Server Books Online: SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx