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How to find whether that service pack file is a 32 bit or 64 bit?

Published 1 November 7 6:44 AM | SSQA.net

Whenever a service pack is released it will be available for 32-bit and 64-bit that also includes for SQL Express 2005 edition too, as it was for MSDE earlier. Since last year (I think) Microsoft Development team has adopted a standard in naming schema...

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Rename a SQL Server instance, is it possible?

Published 2 October 7 4:11 AM | SSQA.net

Another common question on the forums, may be not a frequently performed task and as a DBA you should discourage in performing such actions. Microsoft SQL development team has already documented the information over the KBA 303774 and for the server name...

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