A discussion on why you should upgrade your SQL Server instances. Introduction to the SQL Server upgrades webinar series. https://straightpathsql.com/archives/...
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The main point of this webinar, this whole series really, is just to help you simplify your SQL Server upgrades....
This is really what the series is about. You're on day one, and you can see the agenda here. The main goal is not that I'm not going to upgrade your SQL Server here in 20 to 35 minute webinars. I'm not going to share a lot of code because I think a lot of code just adds complexity that you don't need. My main goal here is really to just help you think about your SQL Server upgrades.
I'll tell you who I am in a second, a little bit about my bio, but the short story is I do a lot of SQL Server upgrades. I've been doing SQL Server 20 years, and I've been consulting for the past 7 or 8. So I have the benefit of, as a consultant, getting called in a lot for upgrades. So while you all may do one upgrade every 7 years or 5 years or 3 years if you're lucky, or unlucky depending on how you look at it, although hopefully after this series you'll say lucky, I do upgrades all the time! So I get to see the good, the bad and sadly I get to see the ugly. Sometimes, as a consultant, I get called in and I see the really ugly and I want to help you avoid that. I want to help make you think … This is more of a watching my hands move, watching me talk, looking at some slides and really help you think of the things that you should think about.
It's one of those things that you might do a normal regular old DBA, that my first 10 years of working with SQL before I was a consultant, I think I did two SQL Server upgrades. A normal career span you might, if you're at one company, just do 3 or 4 upgrades, maybe 5 if you have a lot of SQL Servers. I want to help you think about other ways to do it, how to think about downtime, how to think about versions. All the questions that are in your head I want to help answer in this webinar series.
So today's big picture. I want to chat, introduce you gently to the webinar series and we'll talk about why, why, why. Why upgrade? Why haven't you? And why should you? What's changed? What's new since your last version of SQL? And next week we'll talk about some more before items. We'll say, "What should you do before you upgrade?" Before you even start with the new server, build a VM, go to the cloud, whatever you're doing, what do you think about before? How do you plan? How do you plan for the downtime? How do you communicate? How do you test? All those questions.
Then the next week we'll talk about doing your SQL Server Upgrade. So while you're doing your upgrade, how do you do it and manage success? How can you do it and minimize downtime? How can you do it and come out the best way possible and not be scarred for life?
Then we'll finally talk about "after the upgrade"...... (Full transcript on blog post)
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