Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/21/2016)

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chris 24158 (6/21/2016)

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I'm confused. It appears you now advocate not upgrading if the SQL version is less than eight years old -- SQL2008R2? ...

The dev effort is usually not simply for embracing the new features. Most of the dev effort is to keep our apps running and supporting both newer and older versions...

Depending on the load, I would add also separate disk/array for the tempdb.

RAID5 for backups is totally ok, but I think an important question is whether RAID5 is usable...

The disadvantage of converting to ADP is that it doesn't work. The reason is that the converter will try to convert your access queries to SQL ones and will most...