Hi guys.
I have two scenerio.
One:
Two servers (SQL 7.0), transaction replication
Two:
Four servers (SQL 7.0), transactional replication one publisher, one distributor and 2 subsribers.
I need to upgrade these two scenerio to 2000.
Please advice me with suggestions and your experience.
Is Online replication possible?
-MAK
Where can i find some reference material on how to upgrade to 2005 in a replicated environment please?
does anyone know what order i need to tackle the servers, is it likely to be the same as the Service Pack process?
cheers
Hi All,
Currently we use SQL 2K SP4 and snapshot replication with a Central Publisher with Remote Distributor toplogy.
I am looking to upgrade or migrate our SQL servers to SQL 2005 and was wondering what is the best way to do this for our replicated architecture?
Is the best way to run the SQL 2005 Upgrade on all 3 servers (publisher, distributor, subscriber) and should it automatically upgrade the servers including the replication components? Is there anything i should consider/watch out for when doing the upgrade and it involves replication (namely snapshot replication)?
Thanks in advance.
Hello!I would like to change the SQL server 2000 from Standard version toDevelopment edition. I have two database running on this server, bothreplicated, with few jobs, etc ... Can you recommend the easiest way to dothis? I heard, it would be as easy as, detaching the databases, deletingcurrent SQL software, installing different one, and attaching the olddatabases back. I doubt that is true, so that's why I'm asking here for anyreal-life instructions.Thanks for your input!Kind regards,Dejan--
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obulay@hotmail.com
I have 2 sql server 2k systems to upgrade to sp4 from sp3.
The reason for replication is that the subscriber system backs up the
publisher/distributor system.
My understanding is that I should upgrade the Publisher first,
and then the subscriber.
Since these systems are a primary system, and a backup,
it is desirable to upgrade one, and then another at a later time.
I would prefer to upgrade the subscriber - the backup system - first.
Questions :
1) Is it possible to upgrade the subscriber first in a replicated environment ?
2) If I upgrade the publisher first, do I need to next upgrade the subscriber,
or can I wait a significant time before upgrading?
JYard
UCLA
Hi Everyone:
I am not sure if I should be posting this question in the setup forum. I apologise if this is the wrong forum. My question is simple and straightforward.
1). What are the things that I should consider while upgrading Replication from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 Assuming
Case A : My SQL Server 2000 is the Publisher.
CASE B: My SQL Server 2000 is the Distributor
CASE C : My SQL Server 2000 is the Subscriber.
Any documents, whitepapers or KBs or related posts would be helpful. MS SMEs please share your thoughts.
Thanks
AK
Hello,
I have the following scenario. An application using SQL Server 2000 SP3 on the server side and clients using MSDE 2000A (SP3a) on the client machine. Since the client is offline quite often merge replication is used to keep the clients in sync.
Now we try to upgrade to SQL Server 2005 SP1. The publisher and distributor upgrade (on the same box) worked fine and all clients could still synchronize. Fine :-)
Now we try to upgrade the clients to SQL Express SP1. Now the problems start :-(
1) After the upgrade the entry within the Synchronization Manager is gone (we can overcome this by using sp_MSregistersubscription or by manually disable and enable Synchronization manager on the subscription properties)
2) Initial Synchronization (takes a long time but) works fine, if I apply changes to the subscriber or force a reinitialize all following synchronization will fail. With the following messages:
Error messages:
The merge process could not clean up the subscription to 'tstvmw23':'TestBase:'TestBase'. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL-2147200965)
Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL-2147200965
New request is not allowed to start because it should come with valid transaction descriptor. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 3989)
Get help: http://help/3989
Remark the test system I use is a nearly empty db (only with full schema and a few lookup tables) with 15MB. The same error occures if I create a new database an subscribe to the same publication.
Please help otherwise I'm forced to step back to MSDE.
Thanks in advance,
Thomas Hotz
I'm try to upgrade SQL Server 2005 Evaluation with tuned up and worked merge replication.
- I'm insert disk with licensed SQL Server 2005 Enterprise, start installation - in process, indicate instance for installing, in list of options appears I see option "ugrade"
- All passes fine and go on:
After upgarde I'm get completely broken merge replication!
Moreover, such feeling that certain strange troubles with SQL Agent:
all points context menu in Replication Monotor - disabled and if I try to start replication manually through jobs - too failed - with some error "agent shutdown" !
I'm try to build "clear" situation: install in Virtual PC Windows 2003 Ent SP1, SQL 2005 Eval and setup my test replication and upgrade SQL Server to Enterprise version - and get same trouble too!!!
What the best way to uprade my evaluations sql servers with replication to licensed version SQL Ent?
There must be many various ways to upgrade a dual processor server from SQL 7 to SQL 2000.
Do you think I am better off to simply run the upgrade CDs?
Would it be better to de-install SQL 7 and then install SQL 2000?
Better still to Rebuild from scratch? (OS & setup)?
This particular server has seen little use actually.
Who has experience and suggestions?
Thanks,
Mark Blackburn
CA Dept of Parks
Hi.
I have two scenerio.
One:
Two servers (SQL 7.0), transaction replication
Two:
Four servers (SQL 7.0), transactional replication one publisher, one distributor and 2 subsribers.
I need to upgrade these two scenerio to 2000.
Please advice me with suggestions and your experience.
-MAK
I am planning on upgrading my existing SQL Server 7 to 2000. I plan on starting out just upgrading the SQL first, then upgrading to Win2k Server later on.
I have read some posts here with some of you having issues, etc. Based on your experiences, do you suggest, I do both upgrades together? I think it would be best to do this on a new server, and keeping everything live on the other server until I feel comfortable in moving over the data.
What files besides the database files, should I restore, if any? Are there any significant application performance issues or bugs? Should I wait to apply the first sql patch that was just released last week? What about any code that needs to be rewritten?I will do it as a test first, but any advice would be great.
I have several SQL 7.0 SQL servers that I need to upgrade to SQL 2000.
I have been tasked with finding out what the risks are in upgrading and where I may run into problems when upgrading.
So far I have'nt been able to find any info of how to prepare for the upgrade.
Does anyone know of potential problems I should look for or documents/kb articles on the web that I can refer to plan correctly.
Thanks.
We are trying to do an upgrade in place and are getting errors that it can't activate model database files. We believe it's because we move all log files to another drive and think Microsoft failed once again to recognize this in their upgrades. They made this mistake in 7.0 SP2 (the SP failed if you moved log files to alternate location) but they fixed it in SP3.
Has anyeone experieinced this problem? Is there a workaround (other than the obvious.)
Replies are appreciated!
Colleen:confused:
We are about do an upgrade from 6.5 to 2000. Does anyone know of any material that would be of assistance to me. If you have any pointers that would also be appreciated.
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Is this a safe approach:
Create a database on SQL 2K and script out all the objects like tables, Indexes, views and run it against SQL 2K.
Then run the DTS to populate all the tables and you are done?
Hi,
I'm looking to upgrade our old 6.5 server (running NT4) to 2000 and go to Windows Server 2003 at the same time. There are 10 or so small to medium sized DBs on here.
Can anyone provide some decent links to blogs, FAQs or documentation relating to this?
Many thanks,
Matt
Hi,I am trying to use the Upgrade Wizard in SQL 2000 to upgrade a SQL 6.5 db to2000. I am only choosing to update a single database, not system objects.The Upgrade wizard connects to SQL 6.5, checks the db, creates the db on SQL2000 with all tables and imports users from SQL 6.5. The problem comes whenit tries to bring over the actual data. I get an error:"Couldn't connection to the export machine!" in the out log file.The in log file reports login failed.Both SQL services were running at this point, the login via SA must beworking since it copies over the 6.5 db structure and users.The SQL 6.5 machine is NT 4. The 2000 machine is Windows Server 2003. Iwas logged in as domain admin when running this. I tried playing with the"SQLUpgrade" DSN that was created on the SQL 2000 machine to use SA orwindows authentication, both fail.Any ideas?Thanks.
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This is want happen. We have upgraded from sql 2000 sp3 to sql 2000 sp4 on an window 2003 server with sp1. Now we are getting this error. ERROR: 17805, SEVERITY: 20, STATE: 3 INVALID BUFFER RECEIVED FROM CLIENT..
Any ideas.
Mark
Hello,
I have a project where I have to upgrade SQL 2000 to 2005. When we are upgrading we are going to move to new server so server name will change. Most of our applications have a hard coded connection string. Applications are developed with Classic ASP, .NET 1.1 and 2.0 as well.
Now the question is what is the best way to do this? Changing all the connection string will be a very painful task as we have many applications.
Can anyone suggest a way where we can achieve this without changing all the connection strings?
Thanks in advance.
Tareq
Do I have to upgrade to 7.0 before installing the beta SQL 2000 or can I go straight from 6.5?
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The upgrade process fails in the upgrade.sql step. With no meaningful error messages. All services that may use the db are stopped, the net is disabled so this server is stand alone, nothing can be accessing the db !
I cannot find any log output, from the upgrade so I dont know whats causing this. Has anyone any ideas ?
Thanks
Tom
Hi all:-
How do I upgrade my local sql server 7 to sql 2000 ? Do I just put in the sql server 2000 CD and run it or is there an upgrade CD ? I have lots of stuff on my sql 7 and don't want to lose it.
Thanks in advance!
Hi,
We have a VB application, which extracts data from SQL Server 6.5 database. Recently we upgraded our database from 6.5 to 2000.
One of the report which used to give results in Sorted order in 6.5 database, is not producing the same report in sorted order. We didn't do any change at database/application level.
As we have not made any changes at application level, I am presuming that the problem is at database level, due to this upgradation.
Can any one guide me how to rectify this problem.
As I don't have source code for this application; Is it possible for me to extract the query running for this report from database?
Thanks.
Hello List,
I've couple of questions about Sql Server 2000 and would greatly appreciate, If somebody out there, please answer to it.
Questions:
I've a SQL 7 server dump file and I was wondering, If I can directly load this file into SQL Server 2000? If yes, Would this call a Upgrade of sql 7.0 database to SQl Server 2000? Or this is just a backward compatability support in 2000?
Well the main objective of this is, We are planning to upgrade one of our production SQL 7.0 server and I was wondering, If we can just take the SQL 7.0 dump file and load it into the SQL 2000 Server? If yes, What are the downgrades of this and if no, Should we upgrade the sql 7.0 server itself and along with it all the databases sitting on it? Please shed some light here.
Many thanks.
I started with a SQL 7.0 installation and installed an instance of SQL 2000. The default instance is SQL 7.0 as expected and both run fine. However, now I'd like to upgrade the SQL 7.0 instance to SQL 2000, but the setup procedure on the install CD only allows you to upgrade/modify the SQL 2000 instance. It seems as though once you've chosen to install SQL 2000 as an instance, you do not have the opportunity again to upgrade the SQL 7.0 instance in place. I tried to remove the SQL 2000 instance and reinstall 2000, but the procedure does not give you the opportunity to upgrade the SQL 7.0 instance -- only to modify the programs installed. Any suggestions?
(I could use the Copy Database Wizard to move all databases along with associated stored procedures, logins, etc., but then I'd have to mess with DTS packages, etc.)
the first 2 parts install but the installation fails on the MSDE installation.
It gves me an error like about invalid installation media or something?
I have sql server enterprise.
plz help
I have tried several SQL 2000 upgrades from SQL 7.0 SP3 , NT 4.0 SP6a and numerous hotfixes.I have not had one go through the first time without a problem. These are inplace upgrades, not an install of a new instance.
Number one was the upgrade failed with "The ordinal 105 could not be located in dynamic link lib opends60.dll. To work around this I had to back out our two hotfixes (MS01-032, a security hotfix and the SQL profiler hotfix).
Number two was that MSSQLSERVER would not start before running MESSSAGES.SQL causing setup to hang. To work around this M$ told me to invoke SETUPSQL in debug mode and step through the upgrade and manually start MSSQLSERVER before MESSAGES.SQL was run. This worked and I was able to complete the upgrade successfully.
Number 3 occurred when SETUP could not find MASTLOG.LDF and died. When I first started running 7.0 I decided to move all logs to our separate log device even if they were truncate log on checkpoint. I know, it sounds stupid. I have since stopped this practice. I was able to move MASTLOG.LDF back to the same device and directory as MASTER.MDF and things worked fine. I feel setup ought to look for the logfile in the location specified on the MSSQLSERVER service startup parameter and not assume it's location.
Fortunately all of these upgrades were on test boxes or non-essential servers. However, I am very worried that new problems are going to crop up at each upgrade. I always ghost all volumes before an upgrade and also have good backups, so falling back is not a problem. Has anyone else had these kinds of problems with upgrades? Remember, I am talking about an upgrade not a detach all dbs, uninstall 7.0, install a new instance and reattach all dbs. Though this is something I can fall back on. Detaching and reattaching all DBs would be allot of work with saving logins and all.
I would appreciate any help or suggestions?
Steve Rinehart
Battelle Memorial Institute
Information Management
Technology Group, Network Computing Systems
(614) 424-6543
I'm running the SQL 2000 upgrade wizard and this error came up in the final phases of the upgrade to SQL 2000. The phase is doing the Export Import of the Table data:
Error: Couldn't connect to the ADMIN$ share on the export machine. Verify that the MSSQLServer Service uses a NT Domain account that is part of the Administrator's group of the export machine and that both machines are in the same domain.
I've checked and service account are in the local admin group and both are in the same resource domain. The service account is in the accounts domain.
I have SQL server 6.5 with service pack 5a. Another machine with W2k and SQL server 2000 with SP3 and disables cnv6x70.dll.
Thanks
Currently we have SQL 7 standard server with 100 user CALs. We are planning to upgrade to SQL 2000. What happens to the CALs we have already purchased for SQL 7?
Do we need to pay again for user CALs on SQL 2000? Or can we pay just for upgrade the server software?
I am thankful for any clarifications.
Hello,
We've some of the boxes are SQL Server 7.0 with 65 compatability and SQL Server 7.0 with 70 compatability. Now we are planing to upgrade to SQL 2000 with 80 compatability.
My question, how much complicated it is?
Is there any code changes to do in Stored Procs or Triggers or other? and what are the differences?
If lot of code changes, is there any tool to scan stored procedures?
(As we've more 5000 Stored Procedures)
If my question is not clear, let me know.
Thanks!