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did you try restoring from the front end. <br />
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create a new db and right click and restore db and point it to the backup file.<br />
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did you try restoring from the front end.

create a new db and right click and restore db and point it to the backup file.



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yes, but i want to restore from t-sql.
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that did it doobdave, thanks!
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I am trying to restore a sql 2000 bak file to a sql 2005 server database using t-sql. &nbsp;my restore statement is:<br />
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restore database DATABASENAME from mybackup with replace<br />
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The restore completes but with the following error in the messages:<br />
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Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Procedure SYSKEYS, Line 1<br />
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'FUNCTION'.<br />
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The error message comes after the upgrade step from version 539 to 551. &nbsp;The rest of the upgrade steps go off without a problem. &nbsp;Any suggestions?<br />

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I am trying to restore a sql 2000 bak file to a sql 2005 server database using t-sql.  my restore statement is:

restore database DATABASENAME from mybackup with replace

The restore completes but with the following error in the messages:

Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Procedure SYSKEYS, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'FUNCTION'.

The error message comes after the upgrade step from version 539 to 551.  The rest of the upgrade steps go off without a problem.  Any suggestions?


restore sql 2000 database to sql 2005 error

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