Although this book is about SQL Server 2017, you're not always working with the latest versions and editions of SQL Server. You may be surprised how diverse versions of SQL Server are still in production and you will face a task of upgrading and migrating the server configuration and the content to the new server running the latest version of SQL Server. Each new version of SQL Server brings out many new features that are not available in the older versions and they may be very useful for your environment to bring better performance, stability, and many other factors to your application.
Migration of SQL Server is also usually bound to new hardware for the server or a virtual machine with the latest operating system using new features, so you can actually upgrade the whole platform, not just SQL Server.
We will be covering the following topics in the...
