I wanted to update everyone on this topic.

My IS staff insisted an in-place upgrade was possible, so I hesitantly agreed to give it a shot.

It worked simply. Just select...

Thank you everyone for your responses on the upgrade, I just met with our IS staff and they have agreed to build new servers for us.:-D

I'm still looking for ideas...

The database is the least concern of mine, we have a script to rebuild it and then would re-run the job to populate the data.

This is a healthcare data deduplication...

Thanks for your story, I've never encountered it, but it's comforting to know the solution is available for me when I need it.

You can be sure when the time comes...

HowardW THANKS MUCH!

It makes complete sense.

adhoc

I worked for an 'un-named' state agency for just a few days over a year and was completely appalled by the attitude of 'have to spend it', I could not...