We are processing to migrate SQL Server databases from 2008 to 2016.
We are searching now for expired function or utilities used in SQL Server 2008 and not available in SQL Server 2016 before migration.
Do you have reference for that?
Here are few features removed in SQL Server 2016 (from MSDN):
SQL Server 2016 is a 64-bit application. 32-bit installation is discontinued, though some elements run as 32-bit components
Compatibility level 90 is discontinued. For more information, see ALTER DATABASE Compatibility Level (Transact-SQL).
Though you are migrating from SQL Server 2008 directly to SQL Server 2016, you need to consider the removed features of SQL Server 2012 & SQL Server 2014 as well
Discontinued Database Engine Functionality in SQL Server 2014
Discontinued Database Engine Functionality in SQL Server 2012
Related
Is there any problem if I have upgrade SSRS (hosted on server1) from 2014 to 2016 and its databases (which are on another server server2) are still on SQL Server 2014?
You can use any supported version of SQL Server to host the databases.
From the docs:
Database server version requirements
SQL Server is used to host the report server databases. The SQL Server
Database Engine instance can be local or remote. The following
supported versions of SQL Server Database Engine can host the report
server databases:
SQL Server 2016 (13.x)
SQL Server 2014 (12.x)
SQL Server 2012 (11.x)
SQL Server 2008 R2
SQL Server 2008
Create a report server database
Can I create a snapshot from SQL Server 2012 on a SQL Server 2008 R2 Server?
The goal is to build reporting and queries without locking the live database.
I need only a DB copy (Getdate()-1)
No, the SQL Server 2012 snapshot has specific SQL Server 2012 features in it that are not compatible with SQL Server 2008 R2. These are incompatibilities that you will not see. They are deep in the SQL Server engine. You cannot do this.
It's a similar concept to trying to restore a SQL Server 2012 database backup to a SQL Server 2008 R2 instance. The higher database version cannot backstep to a lower version.
You need to use a SQL Server of the same level or higher (I believe or higher) for your snapshot server.
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.
Thanks
Can I use a SQL Server Express database backup file to restore that database on a full fledged version of SQL Server. I am particularly looking at SQL Server 2008 Express to SQL Server 2012 Enterprise. And if so how?
Lets be clear about one thing first, SQL Server Express , Standard and Enterprise are the Editions.
SQL Server 2005 , 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012 are SQL Server versions.
Now coming to your question whether you can restore a database from 2008 Express to 2012 Enterprise?
The Simple Answer would be YES you can.
A couple of things to keep in mind.
SQL Server Editions has no limitation you can backup and restore databases from one Edition to another without any restrictions (Except SQL Server Express which can only accommodate databases upto 10 GB). Other than this size limitation in SQL Server express, all is good.
Whereas SQL Server Versions has a very strict limitation, You can go up 3 versions but cannot go down at all.
For example if you had taken a backup on SQL Server 2008 (regardless of Edition) you can restore this backup onto a SQL Server 2008, 2008 R2 , 2012 and I think also on 2014. But you cannot restore this onto a SQL Server 2005.
I hope the explanation clears some confusions.
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