

Windows2003 to Windows2008 to Windows2012 So, in a nutshell, I want to upgrade from SAP running on SQL 2005 but I cannot do it on the current OS since it’s too old and I cannot migrate directly to WinSQL 2012, so we have a chicken-and-an-egg loop here. In addition, SQL 2012 is supported only from SPS 26 and up. Second, you cannot perform an upgrade on Win2003 since it’s not supported anymore and has many security flaws that would certainly break the deal.

Since there is no simple known way to perform such an upgrade, I started with listing relevant elementary rules and proceed from there.įirst, there is no certain process to migrate from SQL 2005 directly to SQL 2012, so you need some kind of a “buffer” to accomplish that. Get the system running on Windows 2012 R2 with SQL 2012 The time frame:

An SAP system, ECC 6.0 SPS11 running on Windows Server 2003 (!) with SQL 2005 The goal:
