OK, so I've landed on the path of least resistance as running a backup to disk and then doing a restore to the other server. I need to script this in SQL, and even though I've followed the MS KB ...

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...