Also, since you are doing an in-place upgrade you want to make sure you have everything covered prior to the upgrade. The Upgrade Advisor will analyze and provide reports on the database objects, T-SQL scripts and deprecated commands (if there are any), so you can address these prior to the upgrade. To have a successful upgrade, you need to plan and put together the necessary test cases. The Upgrade Advisor can be downloaded from this page and can be run against SQL Server 2000, 2005 or 2008. This tip gives a step by step explanation and covers all related information. To understand the features and functionality of this tool, you can refer to this tip " Overview of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor". The SQL Server 2008 R2 Upgrade Advisor is a simple and straightforward tool which will help detect any issues for the upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2. If you need to find your current SQL Server version and edition you can refer to this tip. Upgrade Advisorīefore doing the actual upgrade you should run the Upgrade Advisor to understand the impact on the existing SQL Server edition. The step by step process is outlined below. We can find this option in the SQL Server Installation Center under the Maintenance section. To upgrade the version or edition of SQL Server, Microsoft offers the Edition Upgrade wizard to do this task.
#BEST SQL MANAGEMENT STUDIO 2008 R2 HOW TO#
Microsoft makes this easy using the Edition Upgrade feature and in this tip we walk through the steps on how to do an upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2 using this feature. In most environments there may be a need to do an in place version or edition upgrade for an existing SQL Server installation. Version and Edition Upgrades with SQL Server 2008 R2īy: Murali Krishnan | Updated: | Comments (7) | Related: More > Upgrades and Migrations
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