I am trying to upgrade from Umbraco 7.9.0 to Umbraco latest 7.12.x.

I am trying to create a back up of my MS SQL database.

I have shared hosting and Plesk as my admin interface.

Right now the "Copy" feature is not working, so the hosting company is looking into that. AND I can't create a new DB using Sql Server Management Studio (SSMS) at the root so I can do a new DB create in SSMS.
Sooo, what I do is create a new DB (named something like "mydbu_ver712") in the Plesk admin, using the same DB user and it creates a new empty DB with my user as the production DB.

I am using SSMS to run the "Tasks > Generate Scripts" and out put my schema and tables after the table in created through the Plesk admin panel. Seems to output what I think is correct.

I THEN go to the new DB, and in SSMS right click on the DB and paste the SQL script into a new query.
(For my example below, I have renamed the tables from the original), but my example prefix/schema looks like it outputs "mydbadmin".)

Script below starts out something like this:

(Original DB name (example) is "mydb", and new DB name is "mydbuver712")

USE [my_db_u_ver712]
 GO
 /****** Object:  Schema [mydbadmin]    Script Date: 12/9/2018 
 12:25:45 PM ******/
 CREATE SCHEMA [mydbadmin]
 GO
 /****** Object:  Table [mydbadmin].[cmsContent]    Script Date: 
 12/9/2018 12:25:45 PM ******/
 SET ANSI_NULLS ON
 GO
 SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
 GO
 CREATE TABLE [mydbadmin].[cmsContent](
  ........

So I have a few questions.

1. You will see that there is a "CREATE SCHEMA" and when I run the script with that in it, I get an error saying that the object "mydbadmin" already exists.

2. So I then move on and delete the DB, recreate it and then try to run the script WITHOUT the "CREATE SCHEMA" . And the script seems to load the tables fine without error.

3. UMBRACO: So I go into the web.config and update the database name to my new DB name that I hopefully will be using while I do the upgrade.

THE ISSUE: My issue is that after I point the web.config to the new DB, with the same user and credentials, I get the "Umbraco Upgrade" URL where it tries to toss the CMS into an upgrade. Though I have removed the "install" folder. At this point I haven't even done the overwrite of the Umbraco files to the newest CMS, I just pointed the web.config to my new database, which should, theoretically, be an exact copy of the current DB at this point before I even run any Umbraco upgrades.

Why would Umbraco be trying to do the UPGRADE, when the new DB should be an exact copy (aside from the name), of each other.

I don't want to run the upgrade until I know that the new DB can run on the current site before I do any upgrades, this way I can have an actual backup of both the DB and Umbraco. But if Umbraco is trying to run the upgrade script, I am not confident in doing this.

Any pointers? Is there any where other than the web.config that the DB name is stored? Anything else?

Thanks in advance,

Carlos