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I’m maintaining a few projects for different customers. Some of them user Sql Server 2005 and others use 2008.
On my dev-machine, I can only install one of them (2005 is OK for both in development).
However , If I need backup 2008 database back to my machine, it can not be restore to 2005.
I wonder how to deal with this situation?
From a technical point of view, you can definitely install two instances of SQL Server (even different versions) on a single machine:
(local)SQL2005instance and access it as(local)\SQL2005Either do this, or get a second machine (physical or virtual)