Comments on: migrating super old app databases https://dbatools.io/oldapp/ the community's sql powershell module Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:34:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.4 By: Chrissy LeMaire https://dbatools.io/oldapp/#comment-79179 Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:34:41 +0000 https://dbatools.io/?p=9928#comment-79179 Thank you so much Jon! We’re always going to keep support for older servers for environments just like yours. I am on mobile right now and need to update this post but I did find the solution. It’s listed on this issue – the last one https://github.com/dataplat/dbatools/issues/6229

]]> By: jonjpbm https://dbatools.io/oldapp/#comment-79178 Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:16:24 +0000 https://dbatools.io/?p=9928#comment-79178 We are currently migrating 155 servers from 2005 ( I know I know. Don’t start) to SQL 2017.

We wrote all of the migration using powershell and dbatools.

It’s comforting to read your post and, more or less, see that we did the same thing (Lets me know we might be doing something right 🙂 )

Oddly enough we ran into the SSPI issues also and it stalled our upgrade for a bit. It would have been nice to found out the setting that was changed because we checked the SPNs and could not find anything glaringly wrong… :/ We had this happen a couple of times in our non-prod testing environment and we’ve just deleted the SPN and we were good but that didn’t seem to be the case here.

All that aside, thank you for you damn good work on this module. It honestly the best tool I use every single day. Be proud and keep on keeping on.

Cheers!

]]> By: Chrissy LeMaire https://dbatools.io/oldapp/#comment-72517 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:00:57 +0000 https://dbatools.io/?p=9928#comment-72517 Close call! What did your boss use to decrypt the data, just straight T-SQL or a mix of PS and T-SQL? What did you use for the audit?

]]> By: Garry Bargsley https://dbatools.io/oldapp/#comment-72516 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:52:48 +0000 https://dbatools.io/?p=9928#comment-72516 We did a migration once where we did not know column level encryption was in use. So the night of the migration no one knew the password to the cert/key and we could not encrypt/decrypt this column.

Needless to say the application would not function correctly.

Luckily, my boss was online and he wipped up a script to decrypt the data on the old server and re-encrypt on the new server.

So he saved the day and I did an audit the following week to make sure we knew where encryption was in use.

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