Backward Converting SQL Databases
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09-06-2019 - |
Question
Does anyone know of any free tools that can assist in converting an SQL2005
database back to SQL2000
format? I know that you can script all the objects and then do a dump of the data, but this is a lot of work to do manually.
Solution
Reviewing some other related questions I just found Microsoft's Database Publishing Wizard. It does most of what I need, although I have used nVarChar(max) in a couple of places and it simply fails to handle those cases and bombs out without generating anything.
OTHER TIPS
Have you considered using DTS to transfer the data across? It should be independant of the version.
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