Admin: Analysis of Deprecated Features

I recently came across the perfmon counter introduced in SQL2008 of SQLServer:Deprecated Features. It basically tracks executions of deprecated features on a given database server which is invaluable if you are trying to find potentially breaking changes in a huge database - particularly if that database has grown organically across several versions of SQL.

There is also the list provided in Books Online, but i think a real live analysis of your database is much more powerful.

Using the DMV sys.dm_os_performance_counters, you can run a query similar to:
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters WHERE object_name = 'SQLServer:Deprecated Features'

And this will give you the values for any deprecated features you may need to weed out. Further explanations of the exact changes can be found in the earlier article.