I have installed and run 2008 R2 for some time--no problems. use as backend for VS2008 code
recently I tried to restore one of my developer databases with a backup from a production server running 2008.
gave me error messages about incompatible media family--tracked down that problem and discovered that even though I installed and thought I was running 2008 on my developer box, @@version gives 9.0.4035. but 2008 R2 is installed and management studio gives version 10.50.1617.
now I need to import data from the 2008 to what I thought was my 2008 but is really 2005. I tried scripting but HUGE file. until I can get some free time to uninstall and try to install sql 2008 again, any ideas for a temp work around.
is there a way to upgrade this 2005 instance inside of my 2008 installation to 2008 structure. can this thing happen or did I have a bad installation. only thinig I can think of is that in the past I might have backed up a 2005 database from another machine and restored it here but not sure how that could result in this.
another theory-when I installed Visual Studio 2008, it might have installed 2005 SQL Express. then I installed SQL 2008. probably should have done it the other way around, i'm thinking
any advice is appreciated
thanks
dale