how to migrate large database (sql 2008 to sql 2005)

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Sql 2008 in my Server, and I also have a another Server with SQL 2005,I want do the migration (2008 to 2005), so I generate script ,but the script has 900MB size (it cannot be excuted), so I generate script per Object (431 scripts), because there are so many triggers and FOREIGN KEYs some script excuted failed, I dont want to install SQL server 2008 , is there any ways to do the migration?

Posted 2-Nov-11 20:14pm

chenghuichao

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Mehdi Gholam 3-Nov-11 2:30am

Why are you going backwards to 2005?

chenghuichao 3-Nov-11 2:55am

2008 one is online one, 2005 one is for testing ,I just want to Synchronize the database.

Mehdi Gholam 3-Nov-11 4:16am

Just upgrade your testing SQL and you can save a lot of hassle.

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Om Prakash Pant · Answer 1 · 2011-11-02T21:16:00

As you are aware that there is no backward compatibilty from sql server 2008 to 2005.

The only option is (which you already tried) to script the complete database and generate insert scripts to migrate data to sql server 2005.

Once this is done, you can do the data comparision using any comparison tool to validate.