Should be as simple as attach. You can also set the db compatibility
back down to 2000 level.

--Tigran

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:06 PM, James Kerr <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to move a database from a 2003 server running SQL 2000 to a machine
> running 2008R2 and SQL 2008R2. Should this be as easy as dismounting the
> database and copying over the database files to the new server or will SQL
> 2008 require me to do some kind of upgrade to the database first?
>
> James
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