graeme.shorter 69931 (4/11/2014)
I guess the companies motives and my own differ. I want to keep my skill set current and play with all the new features, the company don't want the cost of upgrade and regression testing without good reason. From my experience unless I can find a good justification upgrades happen when vendor support starts to go. Currently we run a lot of 2008R2 and a couple of 2012 and 2005
This is where I would like to see companies allow both time and resources allocated to keep their staff up to date WITHOUT forcing upgrades. I have seen places where they evaluate new releases by test/sample migrations of the database or software most likely to require it soonest.
Gaz
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