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Category: SQL
Get ready! Windows Server and SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 end of support is approaching.
- by Liz Mangini
- September 25, 2018
End of support for both Windows Server and SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is coming up. It’s important to plan your migration and upgrade strategy as soon as possible because once support ends, security updates stop and running software without security updates can violate compliance requirements.
How to transfer cached SQL Server names in SSMS between machines
- by Michael Gombasy
- September 05, 2017
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) has a helpful feature that remembers that last 15 SQL server instances to which you’ve connected, displaying them in a dropdown list within the Connect to Server window. This eliminating the need to remember or track the often-times complex server names we use on a daily basis.
But when it comes time to upgrade to a new machines - or worse, you are forced to wipe your system and reinstall everything - that list of servers disappears!
