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Business Justification - SQL Server 2000 Upgrade
For those companies that have not migrated existing servers to SQL Server 2000, the rewards certainly outweigh the effort. The level of effort may be moderate to high, but the overall platform stability and feature rich capabilities of SQL Server 2000 are unprecedented. As a DBA, your ultimate responsibility is to ensure your systems are available to support the business needs to include the proper platform to efficiently and accurately process the transactions in a cost effective manner. Below outlines the Business Justification to leverage SQL Server 2000.
Business Justification
ID
Justification
Supporting Information
1
Total Cost of Ownership3
Total Cost of Ownership (TOC) lower than any other DBMS in the market
2
System Performance3
Unprecedented System Performance for both OLTP and OLAP environments
3
Microsoft Support
As SQL Server 6.5 ages, Microsoft is providing less support for the product and will eventually have few Support Engineers available to address critical needs
4
Regulated Industry Requirements
Upgrading to SQL Server 2000 becomes especially important for companies in regulated industries that may require a several year data retention period
5
DBA Support
In five years, finding individuals to administer SQL Server 6.5 will be difficult and not attractive to DBAs who are typically interested in the latest and greatest technologies
6
Level of Automation
The level of automation from the SQL Server tool set
7
New Capabilities2
8
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