Attaching TFS sharepoint database to Sharepoint 2010

Hello,
I'm in the middle of upgrading from TFS 2008 (on one server) to TFS 2013 (on another server). I was able to get the TFS portion of the upgrade working, but I'm encountering some difficulty with the Sharepoint database portion. Due to the specs
of the server, I will need to use Sharepoint 2010 instead of Sharepoint 2013. I have a copy of the Sharepoint databases on a SQL Server 2012 instance (on a different server then the actual Sharepoint software). Should I just proceed to attach the
TFS Sharepoint database to the Sharepoint 2010 instance? If so, isn't that done with a stsadm.exe command? I have also yet to configure the Sharepoint 2010 instance in case there is some special considerations when dealing with the TFS sharepoint
databases.
Thanks!

check this one:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tfssetup/archive/2014/05/15/migrating-team-foundation-server-databases.aspx
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