The new features of SQL Server 2005 are well worth the upgrade effort, but how do you upgrade your existing systems painlessly? Microsoft's Jennifer Perret drills into the necessary upgrade planning: ...

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 ...

In SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced the Upgrade Advisor. This was a great idea to be able to analyze your current SQL Server in a safe environment and start the planning process of an important ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. IT teams know that ultimately they need to move off of Microsoft SQL ...

Microsoft Corp. is finally set to launch its SQL Server 2005 database on Monday. And despite a two-year delay, several users who have tested the software cited the improved performance and new ...

Microsoft will end security support for SQL Server 2005 in April 2016, and companies must prepare to upgrade. According to Tiffany Wissner, senior director of data platform marketing at Microsoft, ...

Moving from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 won't be quite as monumental as upgrading from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 (which many organizations haven't even done yet). There are several key ...

I'm doing a test migration of the SQL server that services our in-house ERP application from its current OS using 2003 R2 32 bit running SQL server 2005 Standard 32 bit to a VM hosted on Xenserver 6.1 ...

Microsoft signaled the end of support today for its SQL Server 2005 product. The 10-year-old server has fallen out of Microsoft's "extended support" product lifecycle phase. SQL Server 2005 will no ...

I've got an existing SQL Server 2000 database that I need to move to a completely different box that is running SQL 2005.<BR><BR>I've backed up the database and its log file via NT Backup and restored ...