Upgrading Drupal

Hi everyone. While I kind of have a temporary solution for this issue, I just wanted to see if anyone else is experiencing something similar. I have a Drupal 8 site that has been rocking 8.4.8 since its release. Due to some modules, the swap to 8.5.x had been put of until just recently. I went through our normal update procedure for this site and all was going swimmingly until we got to the database update. My update kept failing on system update #8501 which was trying to perform a request from the Content Moderation module.

Drupal 7.59

Fedora Core 22

Ubercart 7.x-3.11

First, before anyone flames me, the ubercart support forum is broken.  So I thought I'd post my question here to see if anyone else has seen this.

This problem can be replicated:

- Install Drupal 7.59

-Install Ubercart 7.x-3.11

-Install Ubercart dependancies

-Create a Catalog (taxonomy)

- Add two products

- Create a Product Kit

- Add the two products to the Product Kit

Ok, I've resigned the fact that I've lost my site.  However, I still have my Database, and the list of modules that I had installed.  My question is (for example) if I wipe my site files, and install Drupal 8 with the modules I had, how hard is it to recreate my site leveraging my database?  For example, is my page data / content in my database, along with the defined attributes?  Are my taxonomy terms/content still in the database and will they show up if I go to the taxonomies page?  What folders/files do I need to save (outside my database) to help in my rebuild effort?

Is there a way to view what updates/patches have been applied to a specific installation of drupal?  I'm guessing no, but I've been asked to find out specifically.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

I'm upgrading our sites and it's basically my first encounter with Drupal. We run our Drupal sites on IIS with MS SQL server behind them.

The last one of security updates is giving issues. I have several pending database updates pending:

Tablefield 7002 through 7006. But when executing them I get a database exception 

SQLSTATE[22018]: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server][SQL          [error]

I recently installed Drupal in a test site after being "away" from Drupal for some time. The last Drupal sites I built and managed were v 7 and this new one is v 8. As I am on a shared hosting plan, I do not have shell access and must do the updates using FTP. Installation was easy with a built-in install script through cPanel.