RickH
February 5, 2017, 5:53am
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If its a text file that is demo mode and not designed to be used in production, you would need to totally rebuild your system after installing sql, see this topic
@JTRTech he had his set to Text Demo Mode. Unfortunately @cowvin there will be no way to migrate that. You will need to rebuild it. I recommend not using CE as its much slower and limited compared to SQL. You should install the localDB version or install SQL Express 2014 instructions are located here:
To explain demo mode, It uses a single text file to temporarily store some data but it will NOT work for very long and it is NOT a database.
If you choose to go the SQL Express 2014 route …