Could also be historic. Coming originally from a mainframe & unix background before the MS revolution, us Admins used to write our own tools, scripts, programs. I also...

danschl (10/22/2008)

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since there isnt going to be a sql2005 sp3

sql2008 is actually that, so we arent upgrading to sql2008 from sql2005

but it there is a new server purchase it will...

Another reason to upgrade is Microsoft support of virtual datacentres. If you are running on Windows Server 2008 & SQL Server 2008 and you need support from Microsoft then...