June 17, 2010 at 1:31 am
Hi All
Daft question I am sure but I really want to move from SQLServer 2008 Standard ro the same edition but release 2 as it apparently now supports backup compression (which is amazing). Does anyone know if we can somehow get an upgrade from R1 to R2 free somehow? I assumed when I bought it last week we would automatically get R2 not the origional but didnt realise until it was already in production.
Thanks
Chris
June 17, 2010 at 4:53 am
Sadly the answer is no - jjust finished downloading and trying it on our speedy 2mb connection and just get an invalid key 🙁
Hope this helps others not make the same mistae
June 17, 2010 at 5:54 am
If you purchased Software Assurance with your SQL 2008 licenses I think you can upgrade to R2 for free.
Otherwise I'm afraid you have to purchase new licenses.
June 17, 2010 at 6:01 am
Yep - sadly we are still negotiating our Volume License pricing so this is not covered. Going to have to find another way to logship as without compression its just too slow on our internet connection
June 17, 2010 at 6:07 am
I'd purchase one of the 3rd party backup solutions - they're not very expensive in comparison to new SQL licenses.
Red Gate SQL Backup and Litespeed are both good and have built in features for managing log shipping through the GUI's
June 17, 2010 at 6:13 am
Yes Ive looked at both, redgate was the one i was leaning towards (due to its lower price to be honest). Problem is we have over 30DBs we want to logship so it would be nice to be able to set them up as a batch and recover them as a batch when we have our DR tests. With the Built in logshipping we have scripted this but I dont really want to repeat this for a new product. Do you know a way to do this?
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