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SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide - Second Edition

You're reading from  SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789954326
Pages 522 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (2):
Marek Chmel Marek Chmel
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Vladimír Mužný Vladimír Mužný
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Provisioning the SQL Server Environment
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up SQL Server 2019 3. Chapter 2: Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy 4. Section 2: Server and Database Maintenance
5. Chapter 3: Implementing Backup and Recovery 6. Chapter 4: Securing Your SQL Server 7. Chapter 5: Working with Disaster Recovery Options 8. Chapter 6: Indexing and Performance 9. Section 3: High Availability and the Cloud with SQL Server 2019
10. Chapter 7: Planning Migration and Upgrade 11. Chapter 8: Automation – Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2019 12. Chapter 9: Configuring Always On High Availability Features 13. Chapter 10: In-Memory OLTP – Why and How to Use it 14. Chapter 11: Combining SQL Server 2019 with Azure 15. Chapter 12: Taming Big Data with SQL Server 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Performing the upgrade

Once you have finished the planning phase and all the preparations are done, 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 version to the latest version. One thing you also need to carefully consider is the edition upgrade path that you need to follow.

Note

We will be upgrading to the 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 which versions and editions can be upgraded. 

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

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