Four Migration Options to Ease your SQL server 2005 End-of-Support Pains

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Ease your SQL Server 2005 End-of-Support

Pains

Author: Nestor Arellano

Time to upgrade the 10-year-old relational database management system.

Migrating can come with a hefty price tag.

Using SQL Server 2005?

What are your

OPTIONS?

“If it ain’t broke, don’t replace it” route will expose organizations to security risks.

1. Do Nothing

Businesses, especially those in the financial sector, are required to maintain support for the system as part of regulatory compliance.

2. MOVE to a different platform

Risks associated

Careful planning of their extract-transfer-load process.

SQL Server 2014 is 13 times faster than SQL Server 2005

Migration of all or some of the dataTwo SQL Server instances to coexist on the same

server

3. Move to a later version of SQL Server

4. Hosting SQL in the CLOUD Removes the

restraints with running systems side-by-side or

worrying about the underlying

infrastructure

Hosting SQL in the CLOUD Achieve up to a 113% return on

investment within 9.5 months. 20% improvement in IT

resource time 12% reduction in help desk

calls An 11% dip in security issues