0) for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 (SP2). This article describes cumulative update package 3 (Build number. If you plan to deploy this cumulative update on an AlwaysOn configuration, you must read the following Knowledge Base article before you do this:ĪlwaysOn availability groups reported as NOT SYNCHRONIZING after you apply SQL Server 2014 CU5, SQL Server 2012 SP2 CU4, or SQL Server 2012 SP2 CU3 Summary Go through the installation steps and do our assessment.SQL Server 2012 Enterprise SQL Server 2012 Developer SQL Server 2012 Express SQL Server 2012 Standard SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence More. Link provided above and have downloaded the Data Migration Assistant. Please note that my installation is in a test lab and does not represent a production environment. Now let’s pull up that SQL Server and start installing the DMA and getting an assessment of our environment. Migration Assistant you can visit this link: Running the Data Migration Assistant will analyze our SQL installation and the databases and offer a best course of action to upgrade to 2017. Now the last step is also the beginning of the whole upgrade process. Now the next step should be a best practice overall, but always check that you have at least 100GB of free space on your partitions before doing any type of upgrade on your servers. Then we need to make sure KB2919355 is also installed.

NET 4.6.1 installed.Īgain, if you ran Windows Updates, most likely the. It’s recommended to have Service Pack 3 installed. That will include SQL 2014 Service Packs also.

The first step, of course, is to make sure you have all your Windows Updates. So since we’re going to probably be using Windows Server 2012 R2 with our SQL 2014 installation, here is “the list”: This way we’ll be sure we haven’t missed anything and that the odds are nothing will go wrong (something always goes wrong).

Īs with any upgrade, we should first have a pre-upgrade checklist with all the tasks that need to be done prior to the upgrade itself. Today I will be touching the subject matter of doing an in-line upgrade of a MSSQL Server from one version to another.įor today’s article, we will be upgrading from Microsoft SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2017. Hello and welcome to another detailed article on MSSQL.

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