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 need to restore a 2000 backup on 7.0 for testing purposes

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Posted - 2002-08-23 : 09:56:54
Ettore writes "Hi! We have db backup made on MSSQLServer2000 and we need to restore it on MSSQLServer70. We tried to set the db compatibility level to 70 both via Ent. Manager 2000 (db properties, options tab) and
'EXEC sp_dbcmptlevel 'our_db_on_2000', 70' before backing it up but when we attempted to restore the backup on 70 it generates the error:
"SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000) Error 3169: The backed-up db has on-disk structure version 539. The server supports 515..."
Could you help, please?"

royv
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Posted - 2002-08-23 : 10:20:02
You cannot do this.

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jasper_smith
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Posted - 2002-08-23 : 13:32:40
You will need to use DTS or bcp to move it to SQL 7.


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