Hi All,I finally got some shiny new hardware :-D and a thumbs up to upgrade from SQL 2008 ! :cool:My dilemma at the moment is whether to go for the latest version 2016, or play it safe and upgrade to 2014, which hopefully has most bug fixes in place by now. From what I've read as it will only be Standard Edition there isn't much between 14 & 16 in terms of functionality, enterprise is a different story. The only thing different and that is of interest to me is probably the query store features and possibly the tabular BI stuff.I have read 2016 does use fewer resources and depending on the tasks it executes faster, which is obviously a big bonus.In saying this I am leaning towards 2016 as opportunities to upgrade are few and far between, just worried about potential bugs and applying them in 24/7 up time environment with no maintenance window.I will probably stick with mirroring although deprecated as I can't see a reason to use the HA availability group feature in standard edition. It adds another level of complexity with the implementation of clustering.Would be great to hear if anyone else has faced the same/similar upgrade path, and ultimately what decision they took.Any thoughts /comments appreciated.
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