I am just curious how many SQL 2000 servers there are still out there, versus SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. Do you have one? How many does your company have? And what's your impression of what percent of systems are still SQL 2000?
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How Many SQL Server 2000 servers do you have?
None that I am aware of at this time.
My guess would be 40-50% as it was/is a very stable platform and money has been tight in many markets since 2005 came out. Probably declining now that 2008 has been out for a year.
We don't have any left, but I believe that we have a db still in v8 compatibility mode.
I do regularly see lots of people that are looking to go from SQL 2000 to SQL 2008 asking questions.
I think we've got one out of the three live boxes that I have regular contact with.
I have 150 apps running on about 20 production SQL Server 2000 servers (with the gods know how many dev/qa/staging/perftest/uat machines). I just finished doing a full evaluation of each of the apps using Microsofts Upgrade Advisor and Pragmatic Works DTS-X-Change. We're starting the process of moving the apps.
I'm working for myself now, but my previous place had the majority of their DBs on 2000, simply because they are very under-resourced in the operations department. Out of maybe 10 major systems, there was only 1 that was not 2000. Although I left in May, I'd be surprised if that wasn't still the case...
None.
All the servers I'm currently dealing with are SQL Server 2005 or 2008
Around 14 probably more if you include OLAP services, all are virtual machines also
At our place it's all 2005 (10 in our group not sure of other groups) but almost all of them (I'm yet to see an exception) set in SQL2000 compatibility mode.
Is "more than I'd like" a valid answer? There are still a few legacy systems hanging around that for whatever reason or another the vendor has yet to validate SQL 2005 or higher. I'd put my rough estimate of 2000 servers for me at 30% but off-hand I know a big a chunk of them are getting retired/upgraded/replaced in the coming months.
I'd say about 50% of our vendors have still not certified 2005, and hardly any of them (less than 5%) have certified their product for use on SQL Server 2008.
