• mourad.b (1/8/2013)


    Well this is the situation, this is in my home lab and I'm looking to restore an SQl Express 2005 DB to a 2008 SQL server is possible using just the MDF and the LDF files?

    Yes, absolutely it is possible

    I've looked around the web and what I can see is attaching these two files to the SQL 2008 server would be enough?

    Correct, that's all that's needed.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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