Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.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 18:31:00 +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="11082"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19LLwOi+HeRVJKwQY4tRR9q" User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 Mime-proxy/2.1.c.0 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zSbj7yteEV9qXTuozSzXV0ldg5M= Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:1663 Tony Johansson (johansson.andersson@telia.com) writes: > So you mean that my current version of SQL Server 2008 is too old for the > mdf file database. > So I should install SQL 2008 R2. Is that what you mean. I would rather install an instance of SQL 2012. Or be brave and install the current CTP of SQL 2014. It all depends on why you have SQL Server installed in the first place. > If I install SQL 2008 R2 how will that effect current databases that I > have in my present SQL Server 2008. If you upgrade your current instance, your database with be upgraded to the format of SQL 2008 R2. However, you don't need to do an upgrade, but you could install a second instance and in this case, the databases you have on SQL 2008 will not be affected. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se