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SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

You're reading from  SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462541
Pages 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface 1. Setting up SQL Server 2017 2. Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy 3. Backup and Recovery 4. Securing Your SQL Server 5. Disaster Recovery Options 6. Indexing and Performance 7. Troubleshooting SQL Server Environment and Internals 8. Migration and Upgrade 9. Automation - Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2017 10. Always On High Availability Features 11. In-Memory OLTP - Why and How to Use it 12. Combining SQL Server 2017 with Azure

Performing the upgrade

Once you have finished the planning phase and all preparations it's time to perform the upgrade/migration of your SQL Server environment. For the scenario used in this chapter, we'll upgrade an existing SQL Server 2016 to SQL Server 2017. One thing you also need to carefully consider is the edition upgrade path, which you need to follow.

We will be upgrading Enterprise Edition and the Edition will stay the same after the upgrade. You can, however, upgrade between editions. You can find the whole edition and version upgrade matrix on Microsoft's website at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/install-windows/supported-version-and-edition-upgrades where you can see what versions and editions can be upgraded.

In the next steps, we will consider the in-place upgrade of the SQL Server first. Once we have started the SQL Server...

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