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SQL Server Versions
I’ve had a number of you mention that you’re concerned about the versioning with SQL Server. Specifically, with the shorter version cycles, new updates, service packs and such coming at a faster rate, how will you manage your SQL Server versions. It’s surely a cursed if you do, cursed if you don’t thing for Microsoft. We all complained when the versions were too far apart. Now that they’ve moved to faster schedules for releases, we’re all over them again for too much, too fast. Yikes.
Here’s some feedback from one reader, James, that mirrored the feedback from many…
"Many of my third party software vendors do not support their products on SQL 2005, so there is probably little chance that they will support SQL Server 2008 any time soon. I’m forced to split these applications onto older SQL 2000 servers and by next Summer I may very well be supporting 3 completely separate versions of SQL Server. Not because I want to, but because I’m forced to by software vendors that don’t want to move as quickly as Microsoft. What incentive do vendors have to provide support for the most current versions of SQL Server if Microsoft is going to be releasing a new version of the DB engine every 2 years? These quick version and service pack releases are just going to make management more difficult for SQL Server DBAs because the decision to upgrade along with Microsoft may be completely out of our hands. You’ve talked a lot about what people are doing about upgrading from SQL 2000. I think that because we must be on the versions that our vendors support we will be unable to upgrade directly from 2000 to 2008 and will most likely be several versions behind Microsoft for a very long time. "
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