Warning to others - Gemini 3.6 and (NO) SQL2000 Support
Hi all!
I'm pretty disgruntled at the moment having attempted an upgrade to 3.6 and had it fail.
The documentation in 3.6 states the SQL 2000 IS supported , yet it officially doesn't.
If it officially was still supported the upgrade script wouldn't have SQL2005/2008 syntax in it, or it would have checks aganst the version to run the appropriate syntax.
The reason given by Support was '2000 is an old syntax that is hardly ever used anymore'. Honestly, we have lots of customers - big multinational corporates - who are still using 2000!
An upgrade should be seamless. If the decision has been made to not support 2000 anymore, tell us in the documentation, or have the script do the check and PRINT '2000 no longer supported'. Nowhere did I see anything telling me that its no longer supported.
I don't expect that old platforms will be supported for ever , but please be upfront about it so we can plan.
Whoever at Support gave me the 'fix' thanks. The speed with which I received a fix inferred that I'm not the only one stung by this issue.
Regards
Paul.
spire
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 12:55:16 PM |