Thanks for sharing your exp Jason

Sounds like a plan !

Thanks & Regards
Himanshu

> On Mar 12, 2014, at 3:17 PM, Jason Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> **
> Either way should work pretty easy.  In the Remedy world a SQL upgrade seems 
> to be one of the easiest/least painful upgrades encountered.  Largely Remedy 
> doesn't care about the SQL version.  AR System more or less uses standard 
> DBMS functionality and doesn't get into using the more advanced features 
> where you might really notice a chance between SQL versions.
> 
> We are switching our SQL 2005 DB server(s) for 2012 servers right now.  We 
> just started with our test environment last week.  I need to test a little 
> more (more so validating all of our db linked servers still work) but so far 
> it is looking good.  The DBAs built a new SQL 2012 and restored a db backup 
> of the 2005 db.  All I did was change the db server reference in the ar.cfg 
> file and the system started right up.
> 
> Besides what I mentioned above we haven't upgraded a system from of 2005 
> system to 2012 but we have done 2008 to 2012 and AR System never knew the 
> difference.  I suspect you would see similar results with 2005 to 2012.
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:48 AM, Himanshu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Our Current env details are
>> 
>> ARS & ITSM 7.6.04 SP2
>> Win 2003
>> MS SQL 2005
>> 
>> We are planning to migrate our DB SQL 2005 to SQL 2012
>> 
>> Please advise if anyone of you have used following method and suggest which 
>> one will be better
>> 
>> 1) In place upgrade of SQL 2005 to SQL 2012 and than migrate upgraded DB 
>> 2012 to new DB Server SQL 2012 ( old DB box needs to retire).
>> 
>> 2) Install DB SQL 2012 on new server and than take a backup of Remedy SQL 
>> 2005 DB and restore on New SQL 2012.
>> 
>> Please share your exp and timeline on DB and OS upgrade with migration to 
>> new underline infrastructure.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks & Regards
>> Himanshu Kohli
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