Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

My host has notified me that I need to migrate to a new VPS. My old server is running SQL Server 2008 R2 (the free version) and the new server will be running SQL Server 2016 (the free version). My ...

However, the Compatibility Level property for that database remains at the release it was upgraded from. For instance, if you copy a SQL 2000 database to SQL Server 2008, the new copy is an upgrade to ...

I need to use the copy datbase wizard to create a copy of a database on the same server. I know i can move it to another server with the and maintain the database name however i need to make a copy on ...