Issue with Desktop 10.2 connecting to an 10.0 SDE database.

[ChristopherBlinn1]

Perhaps I am missing something or haven't found any documentation stating this is a known issue, but I am testing ArcGIS 10.2 on a VM with Windows 7, and although the prior DB connections and mapped folders were imported over from my 10.1 instance (which is a very nice new feature of the 10.2 install) when I connect to the SDE databases, I cannot view the Version Manager in ArcMap.  The SDE DBs are SQL Server '08, and the SDE is version 10.0.  Like I said, my apologies if this is a known issue and I just haven't found the report, but here is my official post on the issue.

Has any else ran into issues with connecting and viewing the version manager of previous SDE versions in 10.2?  I do not have a 10.1 instance of SDE to test against or I would.

Thanks,
Chris B.

[AsrujitSengupta]

Vasil,

The issue is occurring because of an older version of SQL Server Native Client installed on that machine.

Below is a link for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Feature Pack:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=16978

--> Open the above link
--> Expand Install Instructions
--> Look for "Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Native Client"
--> If the Operating System of your Desktop machine is 32-Bit, download "X86 Package (sqlncli.msi)" & If the Operating System of your Desktop machine is 64-Bit, download "X64 Package (sqlncli.msi)"
--> Install the setup and then try connecting from Desktop

Regards,

[MichaelVolz]

Thanks Asrujit:

Now that I see your response, I remember encountering this issue with a GIS Add-In where a developer had the same error message when upgrading his Add-In at v10.2.  This SQL Server Native Client install was part of the default installation back in v10.0, but is now separate.  This developer had a brand new machine that never had ArcGIS Desktop v10.0 installed on it, so when ArcGIS Desktop v10.2 was installed his Add-In was looking for software that had not yet been installed.  I downloaded this install package from the ESRI Customer Care site under DBMS Support Files for ArcGIS 10.2->Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client.

[VinceAngelo]

Another potential reason for Direct Connect to a 10.0 SQL-Server geodatabase to fail,
even with an updated Native Client, is the use of SQL-Server 2005 for the enterprise
geodatabase (SQL-Server 2005 is not supported by ArcGIS 10.2).

- V