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You have until Oct 2010 to have the SQL2008 upgrade. After this SIMS and all Solus upgrades will not work and I presume knowing Capita they will not support it.

GardnerIT That was exactly my way of thinking. I too only support Primary Schools with pretty small DB's. As long as I make sure I back up the DB's as standard then I am thinking...if it fails then at least the data will be in tact. TeeJay Many thanks for sending over docs etc...will come in really handy. I was having a read up and it mentioned that Capita Disk includes SQLExpress and migration tool....Do they send this out to schools or do the school have to request one?

Hi All Newbie to this site so apologise if this has already been mentioned. I would like to attempt the SIMS SQL Migration from 2005 to 2008. I know Capita deadline is Oct 2010 but I have a few new servers to install early Jan. A company has quoted £300 to do this but I know my way round a server etc and was wondering whether anyone had a tutorial or guide on exactly how to do this. Any help would be appreciated Thanks