Monthly Archives: November 2013

Converting Hyper-V machines from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2012 R2

I am posting this because it wasn’t obvious just from searching the knowledge base. I was recently converting some VMs running under Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2012 R2 and dismayed to find out that I could not import the … Continue reading

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Moving Databases from One Instance to Another Painlessly (Attach Statement Generator)

If you’ve ever had a bunch of databases and need to just move them to another instance without having to manually do the attach, these two scripts may be helpful. I recently was faced with this situation and have learned … Continue reading

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