There's an article here that might be useful;

http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2014/08/sql-server-edition-change-standard-edition-enterprise-evaluation/

Ah, you beat me to it! I finally knew something, too :-D.

Well, always take a backup first to be sure, but yes.

If you're not comfortable doing it in work hours, maybe just delete your desktop shortcut to it (2008) if you...

That's why I suggested taking another backup in the first place. Glad it's working again.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345448%28v=sql.105%29.aspx

ashish.george (8/18/2014)

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The whole tool sets for 2008 and 2012 are existing not just the management studios

and while running the @@version on both 2008 and 2012 will give the result,

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quackhandle1975 (8/18/2014)

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Brandie Tarvin (8/16/2014)

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Those are good answers, though I would be looking for you to ask the business user what he means by "doesn't work' and does he have a...

Are you sure it's not just both sets of Management Studio tools?

What do you get when you run PRINT @@VERSION?

Tweeting about my mistake. I was only trying to help. I didn't suggest doing anything dangerous.

You know everybody can read this thread, right? It was an honest mistake and I apologised immediately. Is this really necessary?

Sorry, I missed that there was no option to increase the drive space.

Try increasing the autogrowth then trying the backup again.

Some of these sound more like questions I'd ask of a developer (or a Development DBA, maybe).

Same here (set it and forget it).

Or worse "It's Password, with a capital P".

Yes, you have to restore the full backup first or you won't be able to restore that differential.