Greetings,

I am currently in the process of updating our system to SQL 2012. Our present system is SQL 2005. Needless to say, this is causing us some problems as 2005 is no longer supported or being updated. So, by making the big jump from 2005 to 2012, the company felt that we could avoid the need to run a database upgrade for at least 5 years. We can also keep our system more secure with the better security enhancements and encryption techniques. We felt it was easier than upgrading to 2008 and then needing to upgrade again in 2 - 3 years.

Have a good day.