SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Technical Guide - in depth

Microsoft has recently released the SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Whitepaper.

This technical guide takes you through the essentials for upgrading SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008 R2 instances to SQL Server 2012.

**SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Technical Guide**
Chapter 1	Upgrade Planning and Deployment
Chapter 2	Management Tools
Chapter 3	Relational Databases
Chapter 4	High Availability
Chapter 5	Database Security
Chapter 6	Full-Text Search
Chapter 7	Service Broker
Chapter 8	SQL Server Express
Chapter 9	SQL Server Data Tools
Chapter 10	Transact-SQL Queries
Chapter 11	Spatial Data
Chapter 12	XML and XQuery
Chapter 13	CLR
Chapter 14	SQL Server Management Objects
Chapter 15	Business Intelligence Tools
Chapter 16	Analysis Services
Chapter 17	Integration Services
Chapter 18	Reporting Services
Chapter 19	Data Mining
Chapter 20	Other Microsoft Applications and Platforms
Appendix 1	Version and Edition Upgrade Paths
Appendix 2	SQL Server 2012: Upgrade Planning Checklist