I have an existing application that transfers a Database from a source server to a target server via SMO “Transfer”. We transfer only the data.
Both SQL-Servers are 2005.
Now we upgrade the target server to SQL-Server 2008. Will the transfer via SMO still work?
This didn’t work out of the box. I had to use the SMO-dll of SQL Server 2008. They have slightly different names.
It was not necessary to change code.
My databases where set to use SQLServer 2005 compatibility mode. I had to change them to native SQLServer 2008 mode.