While this risk is bigger than the upgrade risk (a change to the cardinality estimator in the SQL Server 2014 optimizer impacted a lot of workloads), there are easy ways to mitigate against that. SQL ...

Every SQL Server deadline buys the same thing: a project that delivers nothing new. There is a version of that project you only ever run once. Somewhere in your estate, a team is scoping an SQL Server ...

For most of the last decade, Microsoft made it inexpensive to wait. Each time an SQL Server version reached the end of its extended support – 2008, 2012, 2014 – the same escape hatch was available.

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...