Learn about how Management Tools handles upgrading databases to the new SQL version when viewing and editing.
Starting with Advance Steel 2024, SQL was upgraded to the 2019 version. Any database you open with Management Tools for editing purposes will automatically be converted to SQL 2019, and this will make the database unusable by prior versions of Advance Steel.
To prevent scenarios when the database becomes unusable in prior Advance Steel versions, the "Edit database" command in Management Tools will create a backup of the database, saved next to the original database. The backup database will have the same name as the original database, plus the "_backup" suffix. The backup database can still be used in prior versions of Advance Steel, as it is not converted to SQL 2019.