I have a SQL Server 2012 evaluation in my lab, its license has just expired. I would like to know the possibilities of upgrading to SQL Server 2016.
Can I still upgrade to 2016 and get a 180 days free license with it? Or should I back up the database and restore it to a fresh install of SQL Server 2016?
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We are currently using TFS 2013 - Upgrade 2, connected to a SQL Server 2008 instance. We are trying to upgrade the TFS databases to a SQL Server 2014 instance (new server) with the databases being in 2008 compatibility. When trying the preview function of the TFSConfig RemapDBs command, we are getting the "TF246017 Team Foundation Server could not connect to the database" error. Is it potentially because TFS 2013 - Upgrade 2 doesn't support SQL Server 2014, despite the database being in a 2008 compatibility mode?
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Is it potentially because TFS 2013 - Upgrade 2 doesn't support SQL Server 2014, despite the database being in a 2008 compatibility mode?
Shouldn't be. TFS 2013 Update 2 supports SQL Server 2014. See
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/server/requirements?view=tfs-2013
I have a server that has TFS 2015. Originally, it was running against SQL Server 2012. I backed up the databases and then upgraded to SQL Server 2016. After upgrading to SQL Server 2016 TFS seems to work fine but I still see several entries in programs and features for SQL Server 2012.
My question: How do I check TFS 2015 to verify that it is indeed now running against SQL Server 2016?
If not, I'm guessing that if both SQL Server 2012 and 2016 are installed I have the ability to make TFS switch from one to the other?
We restored our TFS 2013 database backups on separate data tier with SQL Server 2012. Now I am trying to add these databases to TFS server (it's a sandpit tier), where I have a SQL Server 2008 R2 version. While running app tier wizard, I added SQL instance but it is throwing an error:
TF400860: the current version of following service is not supported registry Version 5, min version 5
Both servers have same version of TFS (TFS 2013.5)
Can anyone advise how to fix this?
The minimum SQL version for 2013 is SQL 2012 with SP1 https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/setup-admin/requirements
The minimum SQL server requirement for TFS 2013 is SQL server 2008 R2 (SP1).
The solution for this error is, we need to change the SQL server instance availability group as primary by logging in to same server
We have 4 data tiers, which are in sync, I tried it and I got it with SQL version 2008 R2. No need of SQL version 2012 or higher.
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I currently have SQL server 2008 R2 Express installed for my QA/Dev environment on Amazon EC2 instance.
Now my database is growing beyond the 10GB limitation of Express edition, so am planning to buy SQL server 2014 Developer edition.
So can i upgrade my SQL Express 2008 R2 to SQL server 2014 Developer Edition, if yes what is the procedure?
Yes you can upgrade. Check this Upgrades from Earlier Versions to SQL Server 2014
Yes you can Upgrade Sql-Server 2008r2 to 2014 developer edition.
First of all restoring backup will not upgrade your database. So,
1) Microsoft SQL Server 2014 installation setup provide options to upgrade your database either from 2008 R2 or from 2012. This will preform all the process and provide information if your database is upgradeable or you required to make some changes to your old database. After that you can proceed to upgrade database from 2008 R2 to 2014.
My recommendation would be to install SQL Server 2014 instance and then backup and migrate database from SQL Server 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2014
2) There are other third party tools that will preform all the necessary processes and messaging before upgrade.
You can get complete installation details here :
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3245/quick-guide-to-upgrading-to-sql-server-2014/
Yes, you can upgrade it. You are not written your service pack of sqlserver. Here is the link to what and how to upgrade to Sqlserver2014.
Before doing this type of task always ready for rever, so take backup and restore any other pc.
This will give the whole up-gradation details
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb677622.aspx
http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/SQL-Server-upgrade-paths-What-to-do-before-during-after-upgrading
SQL Server 2012 SP1
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2
SQL Server 2008 SP3
SQL Server 2005
http://sqlmag.com/sql-server-2014/migrating-sql-server-2014
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc707783.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143393.aspx
This morning I had a discussion with my boss about the SQL Server upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012.
I was explaining to him that we can detach or do a backup from SQL Server 2008, and then re-attach or restore the data in SQL Server 2012. Then, he asked me 3 questions in which I have absolutely no idea (what he was asking)?
How do you upgrade the Database Engine?
How do you upgrade the SQL Server Reporting Service?
Can you run both SQL Server 2008 and 2012 side by side?
My assumption was that once you upgrade or install the new instance SQL Server 2012, everything else should be taken care of, or am I wrong?