
I believe that is an old SQL Server 2000 'express' format, from before they were calling Express editions 'express.' If you upgrade that to SQL Server 2005 Express, I believe you should then be able to do a backup that will restore on 2012. Moto, I believe you first need to upgrade the SQL Desktop Engine. The problem with using developer edition in dev, and standard in. Not 100 accurate, there are a lot of 'it depends' here. Steve and the team at Stedman Solutions are here for all your SQL Server needs.Ĭontact us today for your free 30 minute consultation. This needs to be moved to the SQL forums. Developer vs Standard edition Forum Learn more on SQLServerCentral. All current generation Virtual Machines include load balancing and auto-scaling at no cost. Azure Virtual Machines gives you the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions with support for Linux, Windows Server, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM, SAP, and more. You can also view this easily in Database Health Monitor from the Performance Dashboard. Provision Windows and Linux Virtual Machines in seconds.

All SQL Server 2012 versions start with 11.

SQL 2012 EXPRESS VS STANDARD UPDATE
Then Download SP4 -Security Update from MicrosoftĪ quick way to check your version number is to just connect to the database in SSMS and the version number will be shown in the object explorer.
SQL 2012 EXPRESS VS STANDARD INSTALL

