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Expired SQL 2012 license. Moving on to 2014

  • August 26, 2014 at 12:26 pm

    #311036

    Hello, I'm having an issue with an expired license.

    I have a development database in SQL 2012 in which I had been working till the license expired today. I have no back up of this database.

    I do have a license for SQL 2014. Is there a way to move the database files and restore them in SQL 2014 or does it only work for backed up databases?

    Thanks in advance.

  • August 26, 2014 at 12:48 pm

    #1741119

    you can stop the SQL 2012 service and find the mdf and ldf files for the database(s) in question.

    copy them to the new server and use the Attach method:

    Lowell

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  • August 26, 2014 at 1:45 pm

    #1741128

    Give a shot with the SQL Server 2014 upgrade wizard.

  • August 26, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    #1741143

    Dante Garcia (8/26/2014)

    I have a development database in SQL 2012 in which I had been working till the license expired today. I have no back up of this database.

    Licence expired? You were using Evaluation Edition?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • October 1, 2014 at 7:57 am

    #1749400

    Dante Garcia (8/26/2014)

    Hello, I'm having an issue with an expired license.

    I have a development database in SQL 2012 in which I had been working till the license expired today. I have no back up of this database.

    I do have a license for SQL 2014. Is there a way to move the database files and restore them in SQL 2014 or does it only work for backed up databases?

    Thanks in advance.

    If it's for development only and you'll have a valid license for production, why not avoid all this hassle with the Evaluation Edition and buy a copy of the Developer's Edition ($50-60 USD on Amazon).

    Just remember that you cannot use the Developers Edition for a production box. Read the licensing that comes with the Developer's Edition and follow it.

    --Jeff Moden

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    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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