In the preceding sections we have seen all the steps that you have to do in order to upgrade from older versions of Dynamics NAV to Dynamics NAV 2013. In this section we will explain all those steps in detail.
No matter what your current version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV is, before you can upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, a migration to SQL Server is needed if you are using a native database, because it is no longer available.
A test of the database is also needed before starting the upgrade process. In this section we will explain how to perform those two processes.
Microsoft SQL Server (on its 64-bit version) is the only database supported in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013. The native database is gone. If you are using a native database in previous versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you should upgrade to SQL before you start the upgrade process to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013.
The steps to upgrade to SQL Server will not...