During a user group meeting one of the user asked that If we were to migrate our databases over to the evaluation edition of SQL Server 2005, is there a way of upgrading to the purchased (licensed) version (before the 180 day expires) without uninstalling or stopping the converted migrated running or production 2005 databases. The easy option is ...

No doubt that as compare to previous version the current SQL Server 2005 provides more new language constructs and primitives for the T-SQL language than can be utilized. Still there are many out there not entirely ready to upgrade from SQL Server 2000 to 2005. In this case you can take few advantages of SQL 2005 by keeping the user databases in ...

Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition, SQL Server 2005 Enterprise X64 Edition & SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition Notification Contents: New and All Modifications FIX: Error message when you run a stored procedure that references tables after you upgrade a database from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005: ...