Good Afternoon all,
We would like to move our current SharePoint 2007 databases from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008. Our SharePoint server is running on a windows 2003 SP2 machine. The SQL server runs on a separate Windows 2003 SP2 box. Both version of SQL, 2005 and 2008, are up and running in the same SQL server. We are in preparations to upgrade SharePoint 2007 from SP1 to SP3. Before proceeding with the upgrade we thought it might be better to migrate all SharePoint databases to SQL 2008. There is a vast number of documents from different sources and it's kind of confusing since the majority of them depicts migrations from one sql 2005 server to a different 2008; we were discussing this microsoft KB (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512725(v=office.12).aspx) as the most complet information but as mentioned before there are so many documents but our case is a bit different . In my case both versions run in the same server but have different instance names. I have two main question:
1) Would it be better to migrate database before OR after upgrading Sharepoint to SP3
2) What is the best procedure/strategy to follow regarding migrating databases from sql 2005 to sql 2008 regarding our specific environment.
Thanks for help and input in advance,
Alex Alas
Alex Alas