If you’re doing fine as is, an upgrade can wait, but functionality will wane as time goes by. 2. Can I Extend the Life of a Microsoft SQL Server? If legacy applications are running well, keeping old ...

While the upgrade process is better technically ... The financial component is that both SQL Server and Windows Server have changed their licensing models since 2008 to core-based licensing.

With Windows Server 2012 R2 coming to its end ... and folders intact. (Even SQL services can survive the upgrade process.) Microsoft has made sure that the in-place installation option is ...

If you’re still running SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2, you have a little more time to plan ahead for upgrading. Extended support for SQL Server 2012 (including the R2 ...

For legacy applications that are running well and that you don’t want to change, keeping old versions of Windows Server and SQL Server around beyond year 13 is a fairly low-risk approach. It’s best, ...

In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in Windows 11/10, we will also download a SQL Server and connect it to SSMS. Install and configure SQL ...

In SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced the Upgrade Advisor. This was a great idea to be able to analyze your current SQL Server in a safe environment and start the planning process of an ...

br><br>i'm still using the aged and old Windows NT4 Server... now i have a couple of problems..<br><br>1. How to upgrade to PDC if ... Let say i have SQL Server 7.0 installed in the stand-alone ...

In my previous column, I explained how to perform a rolling upgrade on a clustered Hyper-V deployment, taking the servers from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2016. Once this process has ...

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