Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Erland Sommarskog Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver Subject: Re: I get errror message when trying to use mdf database downloaded from the net Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 15:21:14 +0100 Organization: Erland Sommarskog Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="fd3d6d0229f14a752f017d8f9903addd"; logging-data="7352"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+lbGJiHr6t3zpUlEnvrFY5" User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 Mime-proxy/2.1.c.0 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/sjjgqEMm2w9g3089Ana7B2QX9g= Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:1659 Tony Johansson (johansson.andersson@telia.com) writes: > The database > 'C:\USERS\TONY\PROGRAMMERING\ENTITYFRAMEWORKTEST\ENTITYFRAMEWORKTEST\ENTI > TYFRAMEWORKTEST\APP_DATA\PERSONDB.MDF' cannot be opened because it is > version 661. This server supports version 655 and earlier. A downgrade > path is not supported. Could not open new database The database file is from SQL 2008 R2. You have SQL 2008. You would need to install a newer version of SQL Server to use the datbase file. > Here is the version I have for my SQl Server 2008 > Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 10.0.1600.22 > ((SQL_PreRelease).080709-1414 ) And this the RTM version of SQL Server Management Studio, so even if you decide to stick with the current version, you should install Service Pack3. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se