Wow, thanks Mark. That almost sounds too good to be true!

We are going from SQL Server 2005 to 2008 so that probably helps make things fairly straight forward.

My only concern though is that you have suggested we could just upgrade with the dbs in place. I had heard it wasn't advisable to just upgrade, but that it was best to uninstall SQL Server 2005 before installing SQL Server 2008. Do you have a view on this?

(Obviously I'm all for the simple upgrade provided it doesn't have complicated connatations!)