We have an old project which is planned for an upgrade, and now as a seed, we took the backup of the whole database which is in a remote location. I saved it in my remote desktop, which I have limited permissions. I tried to use SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2, but as there are no database in the newly created (remote) system, I cannot actually right click on the databases and restore the .BAK
file.
Is there any other software, or any other method I can use to restore the file? I am guessing this is a pretty small work, but because of the complexity in permissions and connectivity, it's messed up. I cannot even compare to another blogs, I feel this is unique. Please suggest a workaround.
ps., I have no clue which SQL Server version they used to create that backup. The new system does not have Visual Studio, or anything else, but the SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 Express x64 version.