Thursday, 23 February 2017

Sitecore Upgrade – Database Compatibility

In this blog I will share with you my recent experience with Sitecore upgrade, in a recent Sitecore upgrade I worked on I got the databases from my client, I restored them in my SQL server 2012 and complete the upgrade, I send the databases to client and asked them to restore to their database  server;  unfortunately they have SQL Server 2008 R2 and they don’t want to upgrade, So what I should do?




After looking for solutions I found an amazing tool that work like magic, SQL Database Migration Wizard (SQLAzureMW) which help you migrate your SQL Server 2005/2008/2012/2014 databases to Azure SQL Database.

Following are the steps of how you can move your database from SQL server 2012 to SQL Server 2008 R2.

Download and run the version required, Select the option Analyze/Migrate and your target Server

As you can see from the following screen shot:



Connect to your destination Database

See the following screen shot in which you enter the destination SQL server information and the database that you will copy to the other SQL server.


Adjust script generation settings, From the next screen click on Advanced and update the following:

·         Target Database: SQL Server
·         From Tables/views options ensure that “Script/table data” is set to “Table schema with data”.
·         From TSQL compatibility checks ensure
·         Database Engine Store Procedure” is set to True.
·         “Security Functions”
·         Security Stored Procedures
·         And system functions are set to true.

As you can see from the following screen shot.


Then click Next and check your selections, click another next.

You will be notified the script will be generated as you can see from the following screen shot.


The time to finish generating the script will depend on your database size, you will get the following screen when done:



Click next and enter destination SQL server information and then click next, you will get the following screen, after clicking yes you will get your database in the destination SQL server.


Hope it will help someone!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like your blog post! It's very clear and the visuals are great. -Dana

Mohammed Syam said...

Thank You!

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