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 Error Mirroring 2005 principal to 2008 mirror

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sergmis
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Posted - 2009-05-31 : 21:34:21
Hello All,

got a headscratcher of a problem,

I successfully setup mirroring of the adventureworks 2005 DB between my SQL 2005 production server (principal) and a SQL 2008 production2 server (mirror).

Figured I was ready for mirroring production databases on my prod server. Wrong!!

Restored copy of production DB and transaction log to prod2 (left it in recovering state)

Started Mirror wizard on principal (prod server) click on Configure Security... and tried to connect to my mirror server instance (prod2). I get the following error
(Failed to connect to server XXXXX-->This SQL Server version 10.0 is not supported...)

Now I know this basically means SQL 2005 can't recognize/connect to the SQL 2008 server, But why did it work for me when I first tested it using AdventureWorks?

I previuosly had verified others where able to setup mirroring between SQL 2005 and SQL 2008

Upgrading to 2008 on production server would be an added pain, plus added expense
   

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