New business-friendly BI capabilities make a compelling case for a SQL Server 2014 upgrade.

SQL Server 2008 Installation Strategies and Best Practices – Part 2 of 5. New Installation, Upgrade or Transition?

It's not 2008 anymore. Joey details the ins and outs of upgrading these aging Microsoft servers, including licensing changes, support options and potential pitfalls.

Use the steps in this article to perform an in-place upgrade of the databases supporting Operations Manager to SQL Server 2022. Before you proceed, back up any custom authored reports, favorites, and ...

Upgrade Operations Manager databases to SQL Server 2017 Use the steps in this article to perform an in-place upgrade of the databases supporting Operations Manager to SQL Server 2017. Before ...

These are the key questions every IT team needs to answer as they contemplate a migration toward SQL Server 2014.

After pushing back its planned shipment date for SQL Server 2005 four times, Microsoft is ready to launch the new database. And users who have worked with the software hope the extra development ...

SQL Server 2008/R2 is nearing the end of Microsoft’s extended service period. We’ll cover some of the reasons that business are slow to upgrade from older releases of SQL Server, as well as ...

When considering a SQL Server upgrade, organizations have two choices: an in-place upgrade or a side-by-side upgrade. An in-place upgrade means that everything at the hardware or operating system ...

I've got an existing SQL Server 2000 database that I need to move to a completely different box that is running SQL 2005.I've backed up the database and its log file via NT Backup and restored to ...