Supported version & edition upgrades SQL Server 2017

• Windows only

You can upgrade from SQL Server 2008 (10.0.x), SQL Server 2008 R2 (10.50.x), SQL Server 2012

(11.x), SQL Server 2014 (12.x), and SQL Server 2016 (13.x). This article lists the supported

upgrade paths from these SQL Server versions, and the supported edition upgrades for SQL

Server 2017 (14.x).

Before upgrading from one edition of SQL Server 2017 (14.x) to another, verify that the

functionality you’re currently using is supported in the edition to which you’re moving.

Before upgrading SQL Server, enable Windows Authentication for SQL Server Agent and verify

the default configuration: that the SQL Server Agent service account is a member of the SQL

Server

group.

To upgrade to SQL Server 2017 (14.x), you must be running a supported operating system. For

more information, see

Hardware and software requirements for SQL Server 2016 and SQL

Server 2017.

Upgrade is blocked if there’s a pending restart.

Upgrade is blocked if the Windows Installer service isn’t running.

Cross-version instances of SQL Server 2017 (14.x) aren’t supported. Version numbers of

the Database Engine components must be the same in an instance of SQL Server 2017

(14.x).

2017 (14.x) is only available for 64-bit platforms. Cross-platform upgrade isn’t

supported. You can’t upgrade a 32-bit instance of SQL Server to native 64-bit using SQL

Server Setup. However, you can back up or detach databases from a 32-bit instance of

, and then restore or attach them to a new instance of SQL Server (64-bit) if the

databases aren’t published in replication. You must re-create any logins and other user

objects in

,

, and

system databases.

master msdb model