I have a database of 750GB, i want to upgrade from sql server 2008R2 to sql server 2016 web edition.
We create a brand new server and afterwards close down the old 2008 server, not in place upgrade.
Backup time would take around 5 hours and then restore another 4-5 hours.
I though to do a detach attach process, which i think will be much quicker.
The copy time between both machines is no issue we checked it and it should be very quick- up to 30 minutes.
There is no issue for our Site to be down for that time, so i don't care to put the db offline for detach\attach process.
Is there anything else i should consider before going with attach db instead of backup\ restore?
thanks
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