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  • September 11, 2012 at 4:49 am

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    Sorry, I've never heard of "servername@dbname" being a connection string for the native SQL Server connections. So I'm still blank on this.

    Let me ask this, where are the SQL 2000 and SQL 7.x databases located? Same server but different instance? Different server?

    When you're trying to read this 2000 database, are you trying to connect to it via the SSMS GUI or an application? Or is this the same third party that is having trouble with your suspected 7.x database?

    And why can't you upgrade these older databases?

    FYI: I can't answer questions about nameless third party tools. You'll have to contact the vendor about that issue.

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