We have a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database that needs to be converted back to SQL Server 2000. Does anybody have any suggestions on the approach or tools I should use to perform this conversion? We don’t utilise any SQL Server 2005 specific features in the database so this should not make the conversion problematic.
I should mention that I have found the Microsoft SQL Server Export facility very buggy in dealing with Auto Generated Keys so suggestions for alternative tools would be appreciated.
Generate a full script for your database in SQL2005, and change the ‘Script for Server Version’ option to SQL Server 2000. You can now recreate your database on the SQL 2000 server. After this is complete, use the export data feature to export from SQL 2005 to SQL 2000.