November 11, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Hello,
We currently have a couple of instances of Web Edition SQL 2008 installed, and are looking at expanding the use of these instances. This expansion would see us needing to move to the Standard edition as the application of the databases would be more "line of business" serving.
After having a wee browse around it would appear (according to this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143393.aspx) that there is no possibility of migrating to Standard from Web.
Is this the understanding that everyone else has?
If so, it looks like it might be a full rebuild for me *groan*
Thanks in advance
Troy
November 11, 2010 at 10:38 pm
I'm not sure you read that entirely correctly. That table seems to only talk about version upgrades to SQL 2008 R2 Versions, but I did find that 2008 Web to 2008 R2 Standard is supported, and at this url: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143393(v=SQL.100).aspx shows that 2008 Web has no upgrade path in 2008 OTHER than 2008 R2. Sooooo given that, I would say test an R2 upgrade.. I would bet that you are unlikely to have much in the way of issues.
CEWII
November 14, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Thanks Elliott for the response.
The link (specifically referring to SQL 2008) that you posted was actually the one I was looking at initially, but posted the one for R2, and you are correct, the one that details edition upgrades to R2 suggests Web 2008 can go up to R2 for a variety of different versions.
Nice. Thanks for helping me to see the tree's in this particular forest.
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