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This site is maintained by Jason Massie. He has 10 years experience as a DBA and has specialized in performance tuning for the last five. He was recognized by Microsoft as a SQL Server MVP. Jason has spoken at the Professional Association of SQL Server Conference, the North Texas SQL Server Users Group, SQL Connections and TechED. He has worked at Terremark (formerly Data Return) for nearly a decade.
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If you want to upgrade, I suggest you start planning. Get together a full project plan that contains everything from planning and testing to execution and remediation. I cannot stress how important I think planning is but I am just going to talk about testing right now.
Testing with a tool from Scalability Experts. It is designed to help you test functionality. It is called the “SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Assistant”. It goes above and beyond the Upgrade Advisor. Its purpose is to take your code(sql) that currently exists on SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005 and verifies it runs on SQL Server 2008. It is really nice. A coworker and I took an application through the Microsoft Labs to test with it on CTP5 a few months ago. I think they are still having these labs. Hit up your local MSFT evangelist about it.
Here is what it does behind the scenes:
Once you are done, you should have a really good idea if you are going to have any compatibility issues. It is not the end of the road for testing. It doesn’t measure performance or test connectivity(like from legacy VB6 COM objects) so add line items for that to the plan but it will definitely help ease the process.
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