Scenario is when you are trying to open or upgrade SSIS package created in SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 R2 then you may encounter below error and your package upgrade will fail, please find few tips on resolving this error below.   Error Description: Failed to decrypt protected XML node “DTS:Property” with error 0x8009000B “Key not valid for use in specified state.”. You may not be authorized to access this information. This error occurs when […]

Part 1: Team composition and upgrade option pros and cons – http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/Upgrade-Active-Active-cluster-to-SQL-Server-2005-and-Windows-2003 Part 2: Restoring a SQL Server database to a transition server – http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-restore-SQL-Server-database-to-transition-server-during-an-upgrade Part 3: SQL Server high availability when upgrading to SQL Server 2005 – http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/SQL-Server-high-availability-when-upgrading-to-SQL-Server-2005 Part 4: Upgrade live applications to SQL Server 2005 for high availability – http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/Upgrade-live-applications-to-SQL-Server-2005-for-high-availability Part 5: Monitor database mirroring and replication after upgrade – http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/Monitor-database-mirroring-and-replication-after-a-SQL-Server-upgrade

Here is a very useful article by Vipul T. Shah via his blog http://blogs.technet.com/b/vipulshah/archive/2010/06/07/redirecting-sql-client-connection-to-different-instance-of-sql-who-is-listening-to-1433-default-port-without-altering-client-connectionstring.aspx Excerpt from his article, Scenario: Current Setup: SQL Server 2005 Default instance – PRODServer listening at default port 1433 Client Connection String using SQL Native Client – Provider=SQLNCLI ; Server=PRODServer; Database=PRODDB; Trusted_Connection=Yes; with TCP/IP protocol with default port 1433 Now – Upgrade Happens… a side-by-side upgrade on a same server. New Setup: SQL Server 2008 Named Instance – PRODServer\NewPRO Now if […]

Looking for SQL Server 2000 to SQl Server 2005 migration, useful resources available at following link: http://blogs.technet.com/b/vipulshah/archive/2006/11/30/useful-resources-to-pitch-for-migrating-to-sql-server-2005.aspx Comparing Enterprise Development Productivity: SQL Server 2005 versus SQL Server 2000 http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/compare/devprod2000.mspx “This independent productivity study, conducted by 3 Leaf, compares two developers working independently to provide the same added features and functionality to a baseline application. One developer worked with SQL Server 2005, and the other used SQL Server 2000. Bycomparing the time required by each developer […]