
- SQL 2012 EXPRESS DB MANAGEMENT INSTALL
- SQL 2012 EXPRESS DB MANAGEMENT UPGRADE
- SQL 2012 EXPRESS DB MANAGEMENT WINDOWS
l c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\mastlog.ldf e c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\Log\ERRORLOG d c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf 15:40:43.55 Server Registry startup parameters: This is an informational message no user action is required. 15:40:43.55 Server The service account is 'NT Service\MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS'. 15:40:43.55 Server Logging SQL Server messages in file 'c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\Log\ERRORLOG'. 15:40:43.55 Server Authentication mode is WINDOWS-ONLY. 15:40:43.55 Server System Manufacturer: 'Dell Inc.', System Model: 'PowerEdge T100'. 15:40:43.55 Server (c) Microsoft Corporation.
SQL 2012 EXPRESS DB MANAGEMENT WINDOWS
60 (Intel X86)Įxpress Edition on Windows NT 6.2 (Build 9200: ) (WOW64) This is my error log: 15:40:43.55 Server Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Check the SQL Server error log for potential causes. Wait on the Database Engine recovery handle failed.
SQL 2012 EXPRESS DB MANAGEMENT INSTALL
If this sounds like your problem, download a new free version of SQL Server Express (upgrade your existing instance if you want), and then do the attach.I'm trying to install SQL Server 2012 Express on a computer with Windows Server 2012 Foundation, I must recall that this is an Active Directory domain controller but I cannot install the server on another computer. For example, this prevents a table with a columnstore datatype from being installed on 2008 which doesn't know what that is. So the DatabaseĮngine checks the version of the database, and blocks versions higher than it's own. But when a new version is attached to an older version, the old version obviously doesn't know what might have happened in the future.
SQL 2012 EXPRESS DB MANAGEMENT UPGRADE
When an older version isĪttached or upgraded to a newer version, these upgrade changes are automatically made, and the upgrade succeeds. Small changes are made to the database structure. A database can never go backwards in version. I think you are attempting to attach a database from 2012 (version 11) to a SQL Express 2008 (version 10). So, given your comments about only a single instance of the Database Server Engine - which I think I reproduced above - I don't understand why SSMS cannot access d:Workspace\SQL Databases\.mdf

The application works fine with no problems accessing and updating the database." Just to repeat my earlier comment: "I have an application developed several years ago using VS 2008 Express, the database for which is located in d:Workspace\SQL Databases\.mdf and which uses SQLEXPRESS (SQL Server 10.0.552) There is no other error message and no hyperlink. Click the hyperlink in the Message column for details".Ĭlicking on OK to get rid of this message box leaves 'Error' in the Status field of the 'Database to attach' line for d:Workspace\SQL Databases\.mdf. In the 'Databases to attach' dialog when I click on OK (having selected d:Workspace\SQL Databases\.mdf) I get a messageīox saying "An error occurred when attaching the database(s). I start the SQLEXPRESS service and try and attach the d:Workspace\SQL Databases\.mdf to SQLEXPRESS. I have unattached the AdventureWorks database from SQLSERVER2012 and stopped the SQLSERVER2012 service - so no attached databases and no service running. Rick: I am trying to attach my d:Workspace\SQL Databases\.mdf to SQLEXPRESS. Rick Byham, Microsoft, SQL Server Books Online, Implies no warranty But the Database Engine is running with other credentials, and it can't. Studio is running with your credentials, so you can see the location. What error? The error is usually because the 2012 database engine doesn't have file system access to the location of the file, so it can't grab it. You say you get an error when you attempt to attach the database to SQL Server 2012.

Note that if you attach an older version of a database to a newer version of the Database Engine, the database will be updated, and you can't go back again. (This presumes that both instances have been started.) If you no longer want the to use the database using SQL Express, you can detach the database from SQL Express, and then attach Studio to connect to your SQL Express and then you would see the database. But you should also be able to use Management If I understand your configuration, then using Management Studio, you should be able to connect to 2012 and not see the database. Longer?) or to the SQL Server 2012 (which is what I think you are trying to use). Either to your SQL Express instance (which apparently it used to be attached to but is no A database file (like your d:Workspace\SQL Databases\.mdf) can only be "attached" to a single instance of the SQL Server Database Engine.
