Our requirement is to connect to dtatabse server from .net application sitting on application server to invoke and run the sql agent job in database server.
But there is different version of SQL server installed on both the application and databse server.
Database server(sql server 2012) is higher version of sql server than the application server(sql server 2008)
We have two servers:
1) Application server- with SQL server 2008(SP2) where our client window application will be running.
2) Database server- with SQL server 2012(SP1) where our sql agent job will be running .
The application server cannot be upgraded to new version of sql server as presently the client application will not support the latter version of sql server. It is compatible only with SQL server 2008(SP2) version.
when we tried to connect to database server from application server using managemet studio it gives the message "Index was out of bounds of array(microsoft.sqlserver.smo)", but still it allows me to connect to database server instance and run our job using the sp_start_job <'job_name'>
From our client windows application which sits on application server(with sql server 2008) we try to connect to database server using connection string in .net code and tries to execute the job sitting on the databse server(sql server 2012) by calling the same sp in .net code, but the log file gives connection error, and hence application is not allowed to establish connection to databse server with Microsoft sql Client 10.0.
Please assist on the above issue.