Hi folks,
This is my scenario:
I have to move SQL 2008 32bit database (server1\db1) to new database server that has SQL 2014 64bit. Both servers are in a AD Domain.
Original server is SQL 2008 Ent. 32 bit, destination server is SQL 2014 Std. 64bit.
I need to upgrade to a new server and keep the same servername/db as the original, as the applications that are accessing the database are accessing it through servername and it will be lot of work on the developers side to change all the connection string.
I can;t do inplace upgrade as the current server is Server 2008 32bit.
My scenario is this:
Original server: server 1
New server: server2
I do a backup of the database from server 1 and restore it on server 2
Shut down server 1.
Reset server 1 computer account in AD.
Rename server 2 to server 1 and assign the same IP address that server 1 originally...