While the Microsoft reference may say that you should keep the operating system the same, it seems hard to believe that there aren’t situations where one would decide to bypass this recommendation. If you are sitting on Windows 2003 x86 with SQL Server 2000 x86 and you have the option to go to Windows 2008 [...]
After reading through the SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide, you should have a good idea about which direction you want to move forward. The upgrade path and upgrade method will help you modify your plan so that you have the best chance to succeed. Depending on your environment, your choices may already be [...]
Due to constraints such as budgets, staff, and overhead it may only be feasible for a shop to move from SQL Server 2000 to 2005 instead of going straight to SQL Server 2008. There are plenty of resources on the internet that cover the advantages and pitfalls that one might encounter during the leap of [...]
This is part one in a series of upgrading from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005. The first question I want to address is why would you want to upgrade in the first place. It’s important to know why you are doing something if you are going to be able to truly understand what [...]
For those of us that are still in situations where we deal primarily with SQL Server 2000, there should come a time when we have to run the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor. Some of you may be going straight to SQL Server 2008 and this issue may be resolved in the SQL Server [...]
A colleague of mine had tried to install SQL Server 2005 several times onto a x64 server. He kept gettting the following error: The SQL Server service failed to start. For more information, see the SQL Server Books Online topics, “How to: View SQL Server 2005 Setup Log Files” and “Starting SQL Server Manually.” After [...]
If you are using SSIS to handle a column that has the name of ErrorCode you could run into an issue. You can find more information on the specifics @ Microsoft Connect. Your error may look similar to this: Validation error. Data Flow Task: DTS.Pipeline: The package contains two objects with the duplicate name of [...]
I ran into an issue last night where copying selected text into the Execute SQL Task within SSIS would get truncated at a certain point. I really believe that I’ve successfully pasted larger text without an issue before, but I haven’t tested that theory as of yet. One fix is to save the file as [...]
Whenever it comes time to install SQL Server to a server it’s usually not a big deal to walk back to the server with the disc or share my drive across the network. I ran into a different situation this weekend when I needed to install several versions on a server while on a vpn [...]
In the past, we’ve run into issues with contention and the -T1118 flag, hotfix 2040, and multiple tempdb files that led me to go ahead and put this info out there if nothing more than for my future reference. I ran into a machine today that had the tempdb files in the wrong location. They [...]