I have plenty of sympathy. A big database is a non-trivial thing. It takes quite a bit of experience to get your head around all the peculiarities of a new system. Well, you have to start somewhere and learning new stuff is good for the CV
Installing and upgrading help
Upgrade from 2.6 to 2.9 and from mysql to mssql
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