Sql Server 2014 to Sql Server 2012

  • Hi,

    I was using sql server 2014 trial version. We bought sql server 2012 now.

    How can we setup sql server 2012 ?

    Will it make any problem while restoring Databases to sqlserver 2012?

    Regards,

    Geo

  • geoforu (4/14/2015)


    Hi,

    I was using sql server 2014 trial version. We bought sql server 2012 now.

    How can we setup sql server 2012 ?

    Will it make any problem while restoring Databases to sqlserver 2012?

    Regards,

    Geo

    You cannot restore to a lower version but if you install side by side then you can import to the lower version.

    😎

  • As mentioned, you cannot restore databases. You could use a copy to move tables, objects, data from one version to the other.

    If you are trying to install on the same machine, your 2012 version will be a named instance, and not a default, assuming that 2014 is your default instance.

  • You really shouldn't have anything in a trial environment that you're not ready to throw away. After all, the tests could have just failed.

    But as others have said, export/import is your only answer. You can't do a backup and restore.

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  • Further on the install, I've had no problems installing 2012 alongside existing 2014 unlike previous versions.

    😎

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