There are several approaches to consider when you are planning to upgrade the [!INCLUDEssDE] from a prior release of SQL Server in order to minimize downtime and risk ...

For instance, if you copy a SQL 2000 database to SQL Server 2008, the new copy is an upgrade to the new internal format but retains a Compatibility Level of “80” which represents SQL 2000 aka SQL 8.0.

Many considerations go into evaluating whether it is time to implement an upgrade to a new version of SQL Server. You need to think about socket vs. core licensing ...

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Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. SQL Server 2005 reaches its end-of-life milestone on April 12, the ...

Yugabyte, the company behind YugabyteDB—the open-source, high-performance distributed SQL database for building global, cloud-native applications—is announcing the latest version of its database, ...