topic Attaching a geodatabase in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/attaching-a-geodatabase/m-p/329675#M12633 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>I am going through some old Database Servers tutorials and getting an error dialog box when trying to attach a geodatabase (SQL Server 2008) to ArcGIS 10.5 (Editor) running SQL Server 2014.&nbsp;</P><P>Is it a compability problem, and/or how can I resolve it?</P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Tom</P><P><IMG alt="" class="image-1 jive-image j-img-original" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/345736_attach_error.JPG" style="height: auto;" /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Apr 2017 18:11:16 GMT TomKawa 2017-04-07T18:11:16Z Attaching a geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/attaching-a-geodatabase/m-p/329675#M12633 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>I am going through some old Database Servers tutorials and getting an error dialog box when trying to attach a geodatabase (SQL Server 2008) to ArcGIS 10.5 (Editor) running SQL Server 2014.&nbsp;</P><P>Is it a compability problem, and/or how can I resolve it?</P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Tom</P><P><IMG alt="" class="image-1 jive-image j-img-original" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/345736_attach_error.JPG" style="height: auto;" /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Apr 2017 18:11:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/attaching-a-geodatabase/m-p/329675#M12633 TomKawa 2017-04-07T18:11:16Z Re: Attaching a geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/attaching-a-geodatabase/m-p/329676#M12634 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Adding some more visibility: <A href="https://community.esri.com/groups/geodatabase?sr=search&amp;searchId=01fcc62a-6a4e-4c0a-98b8-9f4bc582b477&amp;searchIndex=0">https://community.esri.com/groups/geodatabase?sr=search&amp;searchId=01fcc62a-6a4e-4c0a-98b8-9f4bc582b477&amp;searchIndex=0</A>‌</P><P></P><P>Have you tried to attach the .mdf via SSMS and not via ArcMap?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Apr 2017 18:15:38 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/attaching-a-geodatabase/m-p/329676#M12634 George_Thompson 2017-04-07T18:15:38Z Re: Attaching a geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/attaching-a-geodatabase/m-p/329677#M12635 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No, I have not. I will give a try...</P><P>Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Apr 2017 18:22:35 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/attaching-a-geodatabase/m-p/329677#M12635 TomKawa 2017-04-07T18:22:35Z Re: Attaching a geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/attaching-a-geodatabase/m-p/329678#M12636 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I got an error again...</P><P><IMG class="image-1 jive-image" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/345776_pastedImage_1.png" style="width: 620px; height: 154px;" /></P><P>Any other suggestions are welcome.</P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Apr 2017 18:46:25 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/attaching-a-geodatabase/m-p/329678#M12636 TomKawa 2017-04-07T18:46:25Z