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Upgrade Microsoft SQL Server to a supported release — without using production as the lab.

Microsoft lifecycle dates, hardware refreshes, and compliance reviews all point at the same job: a supported SQL Server engine without breaking jobs, collations, or the applications on top.

We rebuild your environment in isolation, run the upgrade there, then we can execute production go-live or your team can run the verified scripts and runbook. Side-by-side or in-place is a risk call we make with you.

Stay on SQL Server — including Azure SQL

A supported SQL Server release on-prem, on an Azure, AWS, or Google VM, Azure SQL Database, or Azure SQL Managed Instance is still SQL Server. You are not leaving the engine. We implement the SQL Server target you named.

If the destination is PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, or another non-SQL-Server engine, that is a workload migration. If you are landing onto SQL Server from Postgres or MySQL, that is migrate to SQL Server.

Rehome without a version change

Same SQL Server version, new home: another datacenter, an Azure VM, an AWS VM, a Google VM, or RDS for SQL Server. Backup/restore, log shipping, and Availability Group re-home are already how we cut over. Isolated replica first, then we can run go-live.

Microsoft extended support dates

Dates from the Microsoft Lifecycle policy. “Ended” means no more regular security updates unless you purchase Extended Security Updates.

Typical upgrade targets: SQL Server 2022 or SQL Server 2025, on-prem, on a VM you already run, or Azure SQL Database / Managed Instance when that is the SQL Server you chose.

What this covers

• Any source version still running in production
• Compatibility level, deprecated features, Agent jobs, SSIS, linked servers
• Collation, HA/DR, and the applications that assumed the old engine
• A written go-live sequence, including rollback

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