I am trying to copy a database with huge data from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008. I tried using the Copy Database Wizard but could not use the wizard because they are two different server 2005 and 2008. So I copied all the tables using Import data wizard from SQL Server 2008.
I had about 1120 stored procedures to be copied, so on SQL Server 2005 I used the Generate Script wizard and created script(for SP) which I could run on SQL Server 2008. I ran that script on SQL Server 2008, but only 1082 procedures were created, most of them didn’t get created because of dependency issues. Now I am not sure out of 1120 SP’s which were not created.
Can you suggest anything on how to fix this situation?
SQL Server 2008 can restore from a SQL Server 2005 backup file. Why don’t you just do a quick backup and restore operation? If you don’t want the whole thing, just backup and restore to a temporary SQL 2008 database and then copy the objects you need from there.