SQL Server Upgrades

Upgrading clustered SQL 2005 64 bit standard to enterprise

Does anyone have any steps on how to upgrade a clustered SQL 2005 64 bit standard edition to a clustered 64 bit enterprise edition ??

Is SQL Server Upgrade Advisor worth using?

We are undertaking a technical study/risk evaluation as to whether to upgrade a substantial SQL Server database from 2000 to 2005. Is the Upgrade Advisor tool of significant benefit it assisting us with the risk evaluation? Nobody in our company has used this tool as yet, so any advice will be...

Upgrading from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005

I have been offered a free upgrade to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, but I am very pleased with my current version, SQL Server 2000. If I decide to upgrade, will I have any problems with our network? We use languages like C# and Visual Basic often.

Impact on TSM backups after an upgrade to SQL Server 2005

What would the impact be on TSM backups if I undertook a side by side upgrade of SQL Server 2000 SP4 to SQL Server 2005 SP2?

SQL Server Upgrade and Server Move

I have an old Windows 2000 server running SQL 2000 and need to retire the server and move my SQL databases to a new server. The new server is a fresh install of Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005. I am having a hard time finding a procedure for this complex conversion. Is this something that...

What are the benefits of SQL Server 2005 over SQL Server 2000?

If i am satisfied with SQL 2000 then why I should go for SQL 2005

Upgrading Microsoft SQL 2000 to SQL 2005

I have one server running SQL Server 2005 and about five servers running SQL 2000. Does anyone know what is entailed as far as upgrading from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005? The majority of the servers are running Win2k Server.

Can't Upgrade to SQL Server 2005

I am trying to upgrade a SQL Server 2000 SP4 standared edition running on 64bit Windows 2003 to SQL 2005. Since I am trying to upgrade, I am updating the Default instance. After selecting default instance, the wizard takes you to what components to upgrade; but the Database services is locked so...

Advantages of SQL Server 2005 over SQL Server 2000

What are the benefits of upgrading to SQL Server 2005 from SQL Server 2000?

Upgrading from SQL Server 2000 SP3 to SQL Server 2000 SP4

We have SQL Server 2000 SP3 running on Windows 2003 Server. Every week, after running our optimization and integrity checks on Sunday, we get this error: Time out occurred while waiting for buffer latch type 2... This happens several hours into the day every Monday. Would upgrading to SQL Server...

i upgraded my vb6 database from sql 2000 to sql 2005 server.The same vb code is not working.What changes should i make in the code sothat it can work in sql 2005??

i upgraded my vb6 database from sql 2000 to sql 2005 server.The same vb code is not working.What changes should i make in the code sothat it can work in sql 2005??

clustered sql 2000 to sql 2005 upgrade

What can I expect when upgrading a clustered SQL 2000 box to SQL 2005?

Need to upgrade sql server

Hi right now my database server running on sql server 2000 & my application is also running from the same server for heavy load on server i m going to seperate my database server & application server i need a help bocz my database size is all most 3 GB. also i need to upgrade my database on new...

how to upgrade server to SQL 2005

I have a system with MS SQL Server 2005 installed and am running the MS SQL Server Management Studio Express but when I query the database version it comes back as SQL 2000 - 8.00.194. How do it change to using SQL 2005?

Error when upgrading SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005

I am upgrading SQL Server from 2000 to 2005. While upgrading I have received the below mentioned error. Kindly review and advise me on this. By the way, I have sufficient disk space on my server. "TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup SQL Server Setup has encountered the following problem: ...

Looking for best approach to upgrade SQL Server 2000 databases to SQL Server 2005

I will be upgrading a number of SQL Server 2000 databases to SQL Server 2005 and was wondering what database objects I have to worry about? I believe to run Data Transformation Services (DTS)in 2005, I will have to have legacy installed. Is that correct? Other than that, should there be any...

How to consolidate databases from different SQL Server versions to one SQL Server 2005 database

We have 52 SQL Server databases on different SQL Server versions (6.5,7.0,2000). We need to consolidate all the databases into a single SQL Server 2005 database. The structure is almost the same for all the databases, i.e.,tables/datatype. The actual data is different in all the databases. Could...

What's a safer upgrade, SQL Server 2005 or the new SQL Server 2008?

Do you think that as of next January (2009), SQL Server 2008 will be too new and we should instead go with SQL Server 2005? FYI, we are not a big installation.

Upgrade to SQL Server 2005 resulted in 100% CPU utilization and application timeout error

My server is DL580 running on Intel Xeon Dual core Dual CPU. I have recently migrated from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005. The server is dying and showing 100% CPU utilization and applications are getting Server Timeout expired error. What can I do?

How to transfer encrypted data between SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000

We are a retail/web/phone order store. We process credit cards for all three stores at our retail location. We have our web data stored offsite on the web server, using SQL Server 2005. We have our retail/phone order data stored onsite in SQL Server 2000. I'd like to add a function to our MS...