Can an MS SQL 2005 backup be restored onto an instance of MS SQL 2008?

Question

Is it possible to restore a backup of a SQL Server 2005 database onto an instance of SQL Server 2008?

I need to rebuild a server as it\'s getting rather crufty, so I pla

Answer 1

You can also do a detach/attach with the database files (leastways you could going from 2000 to 2005), but there are more caveats with this approach (requires explicit rebuild indexes afterwards IRRC)